RE: Type error? Too many items?

My guess would be that

following-sibling::h3

is selecting more than one h3, and that you should have written

following-sibling::h3[1]

If that's the case it's a good example of type-checking catching your errors
- and it also illustrates that there's not much point catching the errors if
the resulting diagnostics don't pinpoint the problem.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owen@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owen@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Owen Blacker
> Sent: 26 January 2007 13:56
> To: XSL list
> Subject:  Type error? Too many items?
> 
> I'm developing using Altova XMLSpy 2006 Visual Studio .NET 
> Edition (rel
> 3 SP1) and my XSLT is complaining about "Type error, value 
> does not match a required type as specified by the matching 
> rules in 2.5.4 SequenceType Matching. - 'node()'", yet if I 
> put a watch on the XPaths "." and "../*", they are exactly 
> the types I'd expect (a node() and a node()* of length ~20), 
> if I set a breakpoint at the xsl:call-template statement.
> 
> Then, if I remove the as attributes on the xsl:with-param 
> elements, it tells me "Too many items" on the xsl:if.  I 
> really can't see what's going on here.
> 
> Any suggestions greatfully received!
> 
> 
> Owen
> 
> XSLT excerpts:
> 
> <xsl:call-template name="module-bodies">
>     <xsl:with-param name="current-position"
>        select="foo:index-of-node(., ../*)"/>
>     <xsl:with-param name="future-position"
>        select="foo:index-of-node(following-sibling::h3, 
> ../*)"/> </xsl:call-template>
> 
> ...
> 
> <xsl:function name="foo:index-of-node" as="xs:integer*">
>     <xsl:param name="srch" as="node()"/>
>     <xsl:param name="sequence" as="node()*"/>
> 
>     <xsl:for-each select="$sequence">
>        <xsl:if test=". is $srch">
>           <xsl:sequence select="position()"/>
>        </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:function>
> 
> XML:
> 
> <div>
>     <h3> ... </h3>
>     <p> ... </p>
>     <p> ... </p>
> 
>     <h3> ... </h3>
>     <p> ... </p>
>     <p> ... </p>
> 
>     <!-- etc --->
> </div>
> 
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