On 14/03/2008, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
>  > With this approach I need some way of validating the XML from
>  > within the XSLT and then be able to handle any validation failures...
>
>
> Not possible in standard XSLT 2.0, but you could try saxon:try().

Ahh ok, thanks.

I'm already using saxon:parse but I think saxon:try might be step too far...

It looks like I'll have to recreate the validation checks within the
transform - all simple enumerations but a pain nonetheless.

It would be useful to have little more control over validation within
the transform:

- check if something would be valid if validated (like say castable
as... maybe validatable as!)

- handle validation failures, such as validating the input and
reporting problems, or ignoring invalid elements: processing 1000
repeating elements where the lot fail because 1 of them fails
validation is a reasonably common problem.


thanks
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