Re: [xsl] Stylesheet works in oXygen fails in Python with Saxonc

["Edward Porter edward.porter@xxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respectfully, these sorts of responses don't seem like the best way to grow
the ever dwindling XML-stack community.

However someone finds their way to "the right tool for the job", e.g., using
SaxonC rather than BeautifulSoup to process some XML, is fine with me. As the
original poster notes, you have to start somewhere. It's not like there's a
wealth of extensive, or even relatively fresh, content out there on the net
these days for our corner of the world.

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From: Michael Kay michaelkay90@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Stylesheet works in oXygen fails in Python with Saxonc

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>I was just following a sample file I found.
>

That's the way people write code these days. Copy and paste, no need to
understand it. Either that, or ask ChatGPT to do it for them. I guess ChatGPT
looks at more examples and is therefore more likely to get it right. Who
knows, it might even read the documentation.

I guess that for people like us developing APIs the important lesson is to try
and make the method names as explicit as we possibly can.
"set_initial_match_selection" was, I suppose, an attempt to do that. But it's
only explicit if you know what the "initial match selection" is, and I suppose
most people don't.

It's hard to see how to avoid such problems.

Michael Kay
Saxonica