Re: [xsl] Why does my XSLT produce a Warning message with never-executed code that divides a blank by 10?

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2024-03-31 at 07:57 +0000, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>
> How can the XSLT code be written so that, when executed, it doesn't
> produce a Warning message?B 

You may find that reversing the sense of the test gts rid of the
warning -

if (normalize-space($test) ne '')
then xs:integer($test) div 10
else ()

The XPath spec says that dynamic errors must not be raised from the
if/else branch not taken. This is a warning, not an error, but since
the spec explicitly allows this use of if/else, it seems like an
inappropriate warning to me. But it's a judgement call.

A better way to write this, though, might be

if (normalize-space($text) castable as xs:integer)
then xs:intefer(normalize-space($test)) div 10
else ()

liam


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