I donbt import a schema, and, for that matter, I donbt transform a
document. I create temporary elements inside the stylesheet and I want some of
their attributes to be typed as integers. Ibm not trying to validate
anything except the typing on these ephemeral elements.

> On Nov 25, 2019, at 11:50 PM, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> o;?Am 26.11.2019 um 02:38 schrieb David Birnbaum djbpitt@xxxxxxxxx:
>> Dear XSL-list,
>>
>> I'm beginning to explore schema-aware processing, and for a real
>> project I need to create some temporary elements with attributes that
>> I would like to treat as integers. In the non-schema-aware version I
>> explicitly pass the attributes through the number() function when I
>> need integer behavior, and that does what I want, but I thought that
>> if I typed the values as xs:integer when creating them they would be
>> recognized as instances of that type when used, and would have integer
>> behavior, so that I could avoid using the number() function explicitly.
>>
>> I created a small test sample below that replicates the problem I see
>> in my real code, and I would be grateful if someone could please
>> advise about what I've misunderstood. What I think I'm doing is
>> creating a a variable that contains <cell> elements with @row
>> attributes that are typed as xs:integer, and that therefore should
>> behave as integers when I use them. But when I test in the
>> <xsl:for-each> at the end whether they are instances of integers, the
>> system reports that they are not. I'm running the tests at the command
>> line with Saxon EE and the -sa and -it switches. Thank you for any
>> guidance you might be able to provide.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> David
>> __
>>
>> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="3.0">
>>     <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>>     <xsl:template name="xsl:initial-template">
>>         <xsl:variable name="test" as="element(test)">
>>             <test xsl:validation="preserve">
>>                 <xsl:for-each select="1 to 5">
>>                     <cell>
>>                         <xsl:attribute name="row" type="xs:integer"
>> select="."/>
>>                         <xsl:text>Hi!</xsl:text>
>>                     </cell>
>>                 </xsl:for-each>
>>             </test>
>>         </xsl:variable>
>>         <xsl:for-each select="$test//cell">
>>             <xsl:message select="@row, @row instance of xs:integer"/>
>>         </xsl:for-each>
>>         <root>
>>             <xsl:sequence select="$test"/>
>>         </root>
>>     </xsl:template>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> Where do you import a schema?