Re: [xsl] Getting a specific element count from a generic match

["M. David Peterson" <xmlhacker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

Bit late to the game here...

Dr. Kay, as mentioned in email, I will look into this and see what
might be the problem.

I'll ping back this thread when I have more detail.

On 4/14/06, M. David Peterson <xmlhacker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Bit late to the game here...
>
> Dr. Kay, as mentioned in email, I will look into this and see what might be the problem.
>
> I'll ping back this thread when I have more detail.
>
>
>
>  On 4/11/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > Isn't this purely a fault with the stylesheet, rather than being
> > > specific to saxon.net?
> >
> > The reported problem was that the compile-time error messages were not being
> > displayed: so yes, the stylesheet is known to have errors; the problem is
> > with the display of diagnostics.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> > >
> > > Look at the stylesheet:
> > >
> > > > 1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > > 2 <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> > > > 3 x mlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> > > > 4
> > > > 5 <xsl:variable name="namelist"
> > > > select="distinct-values(//*/node-name())"/>
> > > > 6
> > > > 7  <xsl:variable name="root" select="/"/>
> > > > 8
> > > > 9 <xsl:template match="/">
> > > > 10   <xsl:for-each select="$namelist">
> > > > 11     <xsl:variable name="thisname" select="name()"/>
> > > > 12     <name value="{$thisname}"
> > > > count="{count($root//*[name() = $thisname])}"/>
> > > > 13   </xsl:for-each>
> > > > 14 </xsl:template>
> > > > 15
> > > > 16 </xsl:stylesheet>
> > >
> > > Here $namelist contains a list of items of xdt:anyAtomicType yet it's
> > > trying to be used as a list of nodes (when name() is called on each
> > > item in the sequence).  Saxon is probably staticly aware of this which
> > > is why its not compiling the stylesheet, whereas other processors wont
> > > reveal the error until runtime....
> >
> >
>
>
>
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