Re: [xsl] Fixed attribute problems on change from DTD to schema

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/9/28 G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> At 2009-09-29 05:42 +1300, Trevor Nicholls wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Ken; it's a bit inconvenient (having assumed the wrong outcome
>> to
>> begin with) but if I can't work around it easily I can feel justified
>> asking
>> for approval to go to the commercial version.
>
> If you know in your stylesheet what the default value is supposed to be,
the
> work-around is quite straightforward:
>
>    ( @attribute-name, $default-value )[1]
>
> Because the predicate selects the first of the sequence, and if the
> attribute is absent then the default value becomes the first of the
> sequence.

This isn't ideal though because a change in the default value means a
change is required in two places.  A much better solution (imho) is to
not rely on validation to augment your input, leave the defaults
defined just in one place (in the application that processes the xml).




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