Re: [xsl] variable question

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 31, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Jeni Tennison wrote:

> One solution is to declare the parameter of the function so that it
> accepts an empty sequence. Instead of:
>
>   <xsl:param name="relatedItem" as="element(mods:relatedItem)" />
>
> which says that $relatedItem must be one-and-only-one
> <mods:relatedItem> element, use:
>
>   <xsl:param name="relatedItem" as="element(mods:relatedItem)?" />

That solves it.

Here's the example output FYI:

	http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/misc/test-author-year.xhtml

You can see where the rule gets applied to the first record.	  So the 
function may well look at the mods:relatedItem details (in this case, 
the book), but that is only to know what to do with the main 
mods:titleInfo content (the chapter title).

Bruce