Subject: Re: Avoiding boneheaded mistakes in XSLT?
From: Dave Pawson <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:49:48 +0000
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:13:01 +0000
Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the main reason for the problem is that an XSLT/XPath program
> makes many references to names (of elements and attributes) which do
> not have to be declared, so that using an incorrect name is not an
> error (either static or dynamic), but rather results in an XPath
> expression that simply selects nothing.
I guess no one would do that deliberately?
Yet the rec and implementations don't provide any error | warning
about it?
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> A good defence against this is to write schema-aware stylesheets. I
> fully admit that this involves a lot of up-front effort which can be
> hard to justify.
Yep.
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