Re: [xsl] WARNING org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The child axis starting at a text node will never select anything

["Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 May 2014, at 20:15, Kulas, Jack jkulas@xxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was getting the following warning when Id run a transformation within
Arbortext Editor 6.1-F000, which uses the Saxon 9.1.0.5 XSLT transformation
engine:
>
> WARNING org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The child axis starting at a text
node will never select anything
>
> When I replaced this template
>
>     <xsl:template match="text()" mode="func">
>        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>         <xsl:apply-templates mode="func"/>
>     </xsl:template>

The apply-templates is a no-op; it processes the children of the text node,
and there can never be any. If you remove the apply-templates, you get

>  <xsl:template match="text()" mode="func">
>        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>     </xsl:template>

Which is the default template for text nodes, so it does no harm to delete the
whole thing,

>
> with this one
>
>     <xsl:template match="*" mode="func">
>         <xsl:apply-templates mode="func"/>
>     </xsl:template>
>

This template rule does nothing useful because it's the default template for
element nodes.

So you've deleted one redundant template rule and added another redundant
template rule, and the net effect, unsurprisingly, is that your code still
works.

Michael Kay
Saxonica