RE: [xsl] text nodes

[James Cummings <James.Cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Michael Kay wrote:

> > Thanks to both David and Jarno for examples which
> > work on the test file I provided.  My problem now
> > is when I attempt (just changing element names) to
> > use this on the real file in question I get an
> > error message of:
> >
> > java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out
> > of range: -1
> >
> > I've increased the amount of memory I'm giving saxon to the
> > maximum possible for that machine, in case that is what the
> > problem is.  The file in question isn't *huge* only about
> > a meg.
>
> A Java exception like this (in the absence of extension functions or the
> like) is prima facie evidence of a bug. Report it please on the Saxon list!

I'll try to reproduce in the latest saxon, this was a fairly old
version, 7.5.1 in fact. So whatever the bug is, you might have
fixed it by now. ;-)

-James
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at ota dot ahds dot ac dot uk