RE: [xsl] apply-template doesn't hit template

["Vasu Chakkera" <vasucv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well,
An easier approach is to have a good XSLT tool .. That wont let you write
wrong code at the first instance.. This is always a better approach.. I have
seen many XSLT developers who fancy coding using notepad , textpad for some
of their own known reasons.. While this may be ok to get a grip of the
language syntax, you are more unlikely to make Syntax mistakes with a good
tool. It is quite annoying sometimes to see basic syntax errors in the
processor's error list :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 September 2004 08:26
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] apply-template doesn't hit template

I've found one of the biggest advantages of Saxon is its
ability to report errors that are easy to 'see'/interpret.
  It saves a lot of work.

DaveP.

    > It of course worked just fine. For a day or two I've been
    trying all
    > different kinds of XPaths, I thought I've lost my mind..
    These kind of
    > bugs are not technically hard to solve, but they simply
    needs another pair of eyes.

    But it shouldn't have needed eyes at all, any reasonable
    xslt system ought to have reported error on line ....
    illegal select attribute on xsl:template or some such error
    and stopped and produced no output.

    Did your system silently accept that and then produce bad output?

    David


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