Re: XPath that returns nothing

On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 12:07 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
[...]
>  if you have a function that expects a single 
> element and you go
> xsl:param name="x" as="element()"
> then if one of the input documents is bad the error percolates up to the 
> top level and not only that document fails to produce but the entire run 
> is aborted.

So use, as="element(sockColour)?" maybe?

You still get some additional sanity checking and maybe some performance
benefits, with less strictness...

Liam

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