Re: Avoiding boneheaded mistakes in XSLT?

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Subject: Re: Avoiding boneheaded mistakes in XSLT?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:49:02 -0500

Hi,

On 12/29/2010 8:49 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

Michael Kay wrote:

It would however be possible to make a guess that this is wrong, and

  >  issue a warning. Incorrect warnings are always very irritating, so
  >  this is not something to be done lightly, but it's something I've
  >  wanted to attempt for a long time.
  >
That's why I suggested this would be a debug option.

Another approach would be an XSLT that processes your XSLT and generates another one, which embeds diagnostic analytics. The new XSLT could even be an enhanced version of the old one.

Something like:

(input)

<xsl:template match="book">
  <xsl:value-of select="book[1]/author"/>
</xsl:template>

(output)

<xsl:template match="book" xmlns:d="http://www.mulberrytech.com/xslt/diagnostic"> <xsl:value-of select="book[1]/author"/> <xsl:variable name="d:selected" select="book[1]/author"> <xsl:if test="empty($d:selected)"> <xsl:message>value-of path "book[1]/author" in template matching "book" selects nothing</xsl:message> </xsl:if> </xsl:template>


Cheers,
Wendell


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