On 30/04/2008, Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
>
>  > >   This leads into a warning with Saxon telling that "The child axis
>  > > starting at an attribute node will never select anything."
>
>  > sounds familiar:-)
>
>   ;-)
>
>  > the (@*,$foo)/* method works to suppress that, if needed, where
>  > $foo is a permanently empty global param.
>
>   Yes, <xsl:param name="my:empty"/> is a trick more and more useful,
>  while processors are getting smarter.
>
>   In this case, because we have only nodes, we can also use an
>  apply-templates on the nodes and have two template rules: one that
>  apply templates on the childs and one that does nothing.  Actually,
>  that way, we are setting two distinct static contexts...
>
>   I wonder if Saxon shouldn't suppress the warning when 'treat as' is
>  present.  I know a processor can emit as many warnings as it wants, but
>  maybe that would follow more closely the usage: when the developer uses
>  'treat as', she knows why, she tells the processor she is smarter than
>  it, and she asks to be trusted, wouldn't it?
>

Apparently not.