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Subject: [xsl] XSLT 2.0: Cast does not allow an empty sequence
From: "Sam Byland" <shbyland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:49:17 -0400

Hello again,

Still debugging the upgrade to XSLT 2.0. This one took some time to create a reduced stylesheet that still reproduced the error. The XML instance file (probably irrelevant) is the same as my last post:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Test>"Hello" &#x2260; "World"</Test>

Using SaxonB-8.9j, I get the following error:

<<Error on line 42 of file:/C:/Test/Saxon/Test20.xsl:
XPTY0004: Cast does not allow an empty sequence
Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported>>

with the following XSLT:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output name="OutHTML" method="html" encoding="windows-1252"/>


<xsl:param name="DocumentCode" select=" 'abc11111' "/>
<xsl:param name="Flag1" select="boolean( true() or false() )"/> <!-- force to true -->
<xsl:param name="Flag2" select="boolean( number( substring( $DocumentCode , 6 , 1 ) ) )"/>
<xsl:param name="Flag3" select="substring( $DocumentCode , 6 , 1 )"/>


   <xsl:variable name="FirstPass" as="document-node()">
       <xsl:document>
           <xsl:copy-of select="Test"/>
       </xsl:document>
   </xsl:variable>

   <xsl:template match="Test">
       <xsl:result-document href="test20.html" format="OutHTML">
           <xsl:apply-templates select="$FirstPass" mode="SomeMode"/>
       </xsl:result-document>
   </xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="Test" mode="SomeMode">
       <html>
           <head>
               <title>test</title>
           </head>
           <body>
               <p><xsl:call-template name="SomeNamedTemplate"/></p>
           </body>
       </html>
   </xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="SomeNamedTemplate">

<xsl:variable name="SomeVariable1">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$Flag3 = '1' and //SomeElement[not(ancestor::Foo)][not(contains(string(Bar),'$'))]">true</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$Flag3 != '1' and //SomeElement[not(contains(string(Foo),'$'))]">true</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>


<xsl:value-of select="$SomeVariable1"/>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

*However*, when I try to debug by adding an xsl:message within xsl:variable name="SomeVariable1", the error goes away (?!). i.e. with this mod:

<xsl:variable name="SomeVariable1">
<!-- the xsl:message instruction below makes error go away! -->
<xsl:message>Flag3: <xsl:value-of select="$Flag3"/>, Cond1: <xsl:value-of select="//SomeElement[not(ancestor::Foo)][not(contains(string(Bar),'$'))]"/>, Cond2: <xsl:value-of select="//SomeElement[not(contains(string(Foo),'$'))]"/></xsl:message>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$Flag3 = '1' and //SomeElement[not(ancestor::Foo)][not(contains(string(Bar),'$'))]">true</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$Flag3 != '1' and //SomeElement[not(contains(string(Foo),'$'))]">true</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>


I now get the following in the output, and the transformation continues to the end without any errors:

<<Flag3: 1, Cond1: , Cond2: >>

Any thoughts on what is going on here?

tia,

...sam


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