Subject: RE: Using or ignoring Types in XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:49:42 +0100
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> In XSLT v2.0, even for a Basic
> XSLT Processor, this is a run-time failure that I can't
> recover from. Somebody else must see this a problem or I am
> missing something big somewhere in the literature.
The error isn't recoverable, but it is preventable. Before attempting
the conversion of a string to a dateTime, you can test:
<xsl:if test="$x castable as xs:dateTime">
This way you can ensure that a run-time error will not occur on invalid
data.
Michael Kay
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