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Subject: Re: document() missing the document
From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:11:11 -0400
selectsinglenode missing
[Bernd Gauweiler]

> I'm trying to copy a node set from an external document, using
> <xsl:copy-of select="document('zorro.xml')/......"/>. This is part of a
> transformation that is being kicked off via the selectSingleNode /
> transformNode() javascript interface in IE. Works great, provided
> zorro.xml actually exists.
>
> If zorro.xml doesn't exist, or the server is down, IE6 produces a
> Javascript exception and the transformation fails.
>
> Is there a way to write the XSLT stylesheet so that zorro.xml is
> optional? In other words, for the transformation to succeed even if
> document() fails?
>

Sounds like you need a try/except clause to bracket the call to
selectSingleNode().  javascript these days can do that.

Cheers,

Tom P



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