Re: Why does my XSLT produce a Warning message with n

Hi Folks,

I have a program that generates this XSLT code:

<xsl:template match="/">
         <xsl:variable name="test" select="'    '" as="xs:string"/>
         <xsl:value-of select="
             if (normalize-space($test) eq '') then ()
             else xs:integer($test) div 10"/>
</xsl:template>

When I execute that XSLT code, I get this warning message:

Warning: SXWN9000 Evaluation will always throw a dynamic error: Cannot convert zero-length string to an integer

Why am I getting that Warning message? This:
xs:integer($test) div 10

will never be executed because of this:

if (normalize-space($test) eq '') then ()

So I don't understand why I am getting the Warning message.

How can the XSLT code be written so that, when executed, it doesn't produce a Warning message? Note: recall that I have a program that generates the XSLT code. Sometimes the program generates $test with a blank value, other times the program generates $test with a numeric value. The generated XSLT code needs to work with both cases.

/Roger

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