Re: [xsl] Strange error: Unknown collation

["peter verhaar" <peter.verhaar1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am using Saxon 9, and I really wonder why this go wrong.


2009/1/9 Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>:
> peter verhaar wrote:
>
>> The following 2 lines:
>>
>>                <xsl:variable name="notImportant" select="(1,2)"/>
>>                <xsl:variable name="errorProducingLine"
>> select="sum(for $a in $notImportant return number(max(1,2)))"/>
>>
>> Are producing an error/warning on the closing bracket of the second line:
>>
>> Error: FOCH0002: Unknown collation
>> Warning: SXWN9001: A variable with no following sibling instructions
>> has no effect
>
> Can you tell us which version of which XSLT processor you use?
> I think the error http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#ERRFOCH0002 means
> that the XSLT processor does not support the collation needed for the max
> comparison.
> The warning seems to indicate that the template has the xsl:variable but no
> instruction following that could use the variable.
>
>> But if I remove the Max and change this to something else, it works fine!
>>
>>                <xsl:variable name="errorProducingLine"
>> select="sum(for $a in $notImportant return number(1+1))"/>
>>
>> What's wrong with that first second line?
>
> Well the error about the collation goes away as only max compares values and
> needs a collation.
> Why the warning goes away I don't know.
>
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