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On 30/04/2008, Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Carlisle wrote: > > > > This leads into a warning with Saxon telling that "The child axis > > > starting at an attribute node will never select anything." > > > sounds familiar:-) > > ;-) > > > the (@*,$foo)/* method works to suppress that, if needed, where > > $foo is a permanently empty global param. > > Yes, <xsl:param name="my:empty"/> is a trick more and more useful, > while processors are getting smarter. > > In this case, because we have only nodes, we can also use an > apply-templates on the nodes and have two template rules: one that > apply templates on the childs and one that does nothing. Actually, > that way, we are setting two distinct static contexts... > > I wonder if Saxon shouldn't suppress the warning when 'treat as' is > present. I know a processor can emit as many warnings as it wants, but > maybe that would follow more closely the usage: when the developer uses > 'treat as', she knows why, she tells the processor she is smarter than > it, and she asks to be trusted, wouldn't it? > Apparently not.
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