Re: should there be an error condition with XPATH fun

   note that $somevariable has not been declared with either xsl:param or
   xsl:variable.

Then that's an error.

   in http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath spec it is clear that the contains()
   function should return a false condition

which bit makes that clear?

  and I cant find anything to the
  contrary that would say that this should throw an error (as it doesnt in
  Firefox XSLT processor).

sounds like a bug in mozilla's transformiix xslt engine.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

  3.1 Basics

  A VariableReference evaluates to the value to which the variable name
  is bound in the set of variable bindings in the context. It is an
  error if the variable name is not bound to any value in the set of
  variable bindings in the expression context. 

David

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