RE: [xsl] XML transformation based on parameters

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks to me as if you are using Xalan as your XSLT processor. The kinds
of object you can pass as parameters depend on the processor you are using,
so you should check the processor-specific documentation (or on a
processor-specific help forum).

Passing a string when a node-set is expected definitely feels wrong; I
wouldn't expect a processor to parse the string by way of an automatic
conversion.


Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emiliano Pecis [mailto:emiliano.pecis@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 April 2009 23:32
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] XML transformation based on parameters
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm facing out a conversion issue: when I try to pass a XML
> fragment as input parameter to XSLT, it returns the following error:
>
> cannot convert from  'java.lang.String' to 'node-set'
>
> If I try to pass it as xml object it fails with the following error:
>
> cannot convert from
> 'org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Xobj$DocumentXobj@f0e06a' to
> 'node-set'
>
> I have seen some suggestions regarding the use of "extension
> functions" of processor, I but I didn't understand what
> exactely I should do.
>
> Thanks!
> emiliano
>
>
>
> 2009/4/15 David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >> Because it must be namespace agnostic! Is there an other way to
> >> ignore namespace prefix?
> >
> > others have suggested ways of doing this, but the real
> answer is not
> > to be agnostic. The whole point of namespaces is to uniquely
> > distinguish elements that are in different namespaces.
> >
> > There are always exceptions but a working assumption would be that
> > your input design would be better if the param element were
> always in
> > the same namespace (or no namespace). If you have param elements in
> > different namespaces which must be treated identically, why
> are they
> > in different namespaces?
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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