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Re: [xsl] Avoiding boneheaded mistakes in XSLT? (to warn or not to warn)

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If its that specific you could also do a xsl:message on all that do
trigger and find the one missing....

Michel

2010/12/30 Emmanuel Bigui <eb@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I hope I won't get hit on the head with a stick for doing this, but
> I'd like to weight in on the "warning" side.
>
> Greg's arguments revolve around the fact that an instance of a schema
> that allows optional elements may or may not have those elements; when
> optional elements are not present, it's not an error of any kind, so
> "reporting" it would be misleading at best and extremely annoying at
> worst.
>
> And of course, when there is no schema then everything is
> possible/optional, so there is even less rationale to report anything.
>
> But, there are many cases where one is processing an XML file that has
> been produced specifically for the job at hand; it's the only
> representation of its kind and there will never be "other instances"
> of the same structure.
>
> Therefore the transforms are specific to this one instance, and they
> are written so that every template should actually select something
> (because they will not be executed against another instance, and if
> they don't match something this time around then they are entirely
> useless).
>
> Wouldn't it be useful to have a switch that said "for this transform,
> I expect all my templates to select something; please tell me at the
> end of the transformation the ones that were not run"?
>
> Or is it more the job of an IDE?
>
> Regards,
> EB

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