Re: [xsl] My XPath mistakenly referenced an element that doesn't exist and I got no error message ... is this bad language design?

Subject: Re: [xsl] My XPath mistakenly referenced an element that doesn't exist and I got no error message ... is this bad language design?
From: "dvint dvint@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:55:15 -0000
That only tells you this particular instance doesn't include that element or
content. It doesn't tell you if the path might actually exist in some other
contextSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: "BR Chrisman brchrisman@xxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 10/14/21  9:48 AM  (GMT-08:00)
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] My XPath mistakenly
referenced an element that doesn't	exist and I got no error message ... is
this bad language design? It's not very difficult to apply a transform to the
stylesheet grabbing theB @select from value-of or apply-templates or what not
into new xsl:if test="count(@select) = 0"... xsl:message ... if warnings is
what your colleague wants.- Brian



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