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Re: Avoiding boneheaded mistakes in XSLT?

Subject: Re: Avoiding boneheaded mistakes in XSLT?
From: Dave Pawson <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:27:31 +0000
Re:  Avoiding boneheaded mistakes in XSLT?
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:08:39 -0500
Graydon <graydon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Let's scan the transform and see what might be wrong with it" to my
> mind belongs in a distinct application, much like lint for C back in
> the day, if it's needed at all.  I think nearly all of the kinds of
> errors you're talking about can be addressed better by programming
> style. 

Yep. Those errors that originate between our ears.
Lint seldom catches them. 

btw, the only error I've asked to catch is an xpath resulting
in an empty sequence. Hardly "all the errors I'm talking about"?





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