Re: [xsl] Any way to specify diagnostic message for missing stylesheet parameter?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Any way to specify diagnostic message for missing stylesheet parameter?
From: "Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:21:23 -0000
Make the param not be required and then check for it in a root template.

Cheers,

E.
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Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com




On 10/15/14, 11:19 AM, "David Sewell dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Given a stylesheet parameter <xsl:param name="somevar" required="yes"/>,
>failing to supply a parameter value at run-time results in a boilerplate
>error
>message such as "XTDE0050: No value supplied for required parameter
>somevar".
>
>It would be helpful to be able to supply a custom error message such
>as "required: somevar=[true|false|unknown]" to save the user the time it
>takes
>to look through the code to figure out what parameter is expected.
>There's no
>way to do this in the XSLT spec through 3.0, correct? and no common
>extensions
>for doing it?
>
>If not, would that be a useful feature for others, or are there reasons
>not to
>implement something like that as an extension or enhancement?
>
>David
>
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>ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press
>PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA
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