Re: xsl:with-param and xsl:param

[Scott_Boag@xxxxxxxxx]

Argh.  That's definitely a bug.

-scott




                                                                                                                           
                    Ed Blachman                                                                                            
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I *think* I'm seeing a bug in Xalan version 1.2D01. At least I'm seeing a
disagreement between it on the one hand and Saxon and xt on the other,
where
Saxon's behavior matches what Michael Kay wrote in his book (duh) as well
as
my reading of the XSLT spec.

The question is this: suppose you have...
...a global stylesheet param "foo" with some value,
...a named template within that stylesheet that has no <xsl:param name
="foo"
.../> but that does make use of $foo, and
...a call to the named template that includes <xsl:with-param name="foo"
.../> giving a value that's other than the global param's value:

Within that invocation of the named template, should $foo evaluate to the
global param value, or the value supplied in the call's with-param?

Kay p168: "If there is a child <xsl:with-param> [of the
<xsl:call-template>]
that does not match the name of any <xsl:param> element in the selected
<xsl:template>, then it is ignored."

XSLT v1.0, section 11.6: "It is not an error to pass a parameter _x_ to a
template that does not have an xsl:param element for _x_; the parameter is
simply ignored."

Accordingly, it looks to me like the $foo, inside this invocation of the
named template, should have the globally supplied value, with the unmatched
with-param ignored. That's what I see with Saxon and xt.

(I know that there's a place for xalan bug reporting; I'm just looking for
knowledgeable confirmation that this looks like a bug to folks who have
been
working with this stuff far longer and more closely than I have.)

-- ed

Here's my test case:

XML input:
---
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dummy/>
---

XSL stylesheet:
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
           <xsl:param name="test" select="'global'"/>
           <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"
indent="yes"/>
           <xsl:template match="/">
                     <xsl:call-template name="temtest">
                               <xsl:with-param name="test" select
="'local'"/>
                     </xsl:call-template>
           </xsl:template>
           <xsl:template name="temtest">
                     <xsl:choose>
                               <xsl:when test="$test = 'global'">It is
global!</xsl:when>
                               <xsl:otherwise>Not global!!!</xsl:otherwise>
                     </xsl:choose>
           </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
---

Saxon output:
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>It is global!
---

xt output:
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
It is global!
---

Xalan output:
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Not global!!!
---


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