Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 compability issue occured in topicmerge.XSL in DITA OT1.5.1.

Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 compability issue occured in topicmerge.XSL in DITA OT1.5.1.
From: team wise <dfanster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:08:02 +0800
Hi Michael,
thank you for your response.
When i replied to it, my message was bounced back afterwards. My
question is how to apply -T option. Could you please give me a pointer
as a reference?
You are absolutely right it is effectively an interoperability issue
with XSLT2.0.

Kind regards,
RAY
2012/9/24, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Have you checked whether this is fixed in a later DITA release? You're
> using quite an old one.
>
> If it reproduces with the latest DITA stylesheets, then it might be
> useful to post sufficient information so that other people can reproduce
> the problem and perhaps diagnose the bug.
>
> With Saxon, the best way of diagnosing the bug is to run with the -T
> option. This produces very voluminous trace output, of which the
> interesting part is the last few instructions executed before the
> failure occurred.
>
> Note that it's not entirely accurate to describe this as an XSLT 2.0
> compatibility issue; it's more of a 1.0 interoperability issue that was
> fixed in 2.0. Writing an attribute after writing children of an element
> was an error in XSLT 1.0: "implementations may either signal the error
> or ignore the attribute", so the stylesheet would fail with some XSLT
> 1.0 processors and "succeed" with others. What has changed in 2.0 is
> that all processors are required to behave in the same way (by reporting
> the error).
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica

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