Subject: Re: [xsl] aborting element creation From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:22:14 GMT |
Joris I never took a good look at it, but IMHO I think the idea of letting the implementation decide what to do with xsl errors is rather bizar. It should at least be controllable. You have to remember that the original use case for XSLT was that it was a companion to the original use case of XML. Instead of doing it the "old way" down-converting SGML on the server and sending html over the wire, the "new way" would send XML (Originally SGML-online) over the wire and couple it to a powerful client side XML styling language (which became known as XSL(T)). In a browser world there is a long history of supporting essentially arbitrary error recovery. If you are looking at a page written by someone else in another continent, there's not a lot of point in being told that there is an error on line 10001, you just want to get as much of the real information as possible. So XML has "draconian" error recovery where more or less every error is fatal, this was supposed to constrain authors into getting it right in the source, but XSLT was designed to allow implementations (presumably to be used by XSLT developers) that generated errors but also to allow implementations in browsers that essentially never give a run time error and always do "something sensible". It may look bizarre now, but the world didn't turn out quite as people thought, evidence the number of times people are told on this list and elsewhere that it is often better to run the transformations on the server rather than on the client. Which is probably true but was exactly the thing which XML was developed to avoid. David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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