RE: [xsl] In XPath 2.0 can my XSLT program validate the input and check whether the validation succeeded?

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>         data(.) instance of element(Book, BookType)
>>
> Have you tried "string(.) castable as element(Book, BookType)"?

Hi Ken, yes I have tried that and the results are the same.

/Roger

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From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G. Ken
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Subject: Re: [xsl] In XPath 2.0 can my XSLT program validate the input and
check whether the validation succeeded?

At 2013-07-20 19:50 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>Here is what I think the problem is: since I did not specify the
>SAXON -val flag, the input has no type annotations. Consequently,
>each Book is not an instance of a Book element with type BookType
>and this boolean condition fails:
>
>         data(.) instance of element(Book, BookType)

Have you tried "string(.) castable as element(Book, BookType)"?

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . Ken


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