Re: xslt 3.0, and use of 'as' attribute with xsl:varia

On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 08:14 +0000, Mukul Gandhi
mukulg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> As I've mentioned within another mail on this thread, I think XPath
> 3.1 function conversion rules prohibiting a string value '4' to be
> cast to an xs:integer type is not very much right.

Actually it's *exactly* what i want. If i provide a string where a
number is expected yes please give me an error. The point of using as=
is not only optimization and performance, but also detecting mistakes
at compile time, so i don't get a surprise three years from now in
production when a rarely-used codepath is exercised.

liam

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