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Re: [xsl] Issues with xs:error in the XPath 3.0 and XDM 3.0 Recommendations.

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On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One way one might construct a scenario where xs:error is possibly useful is via function-lookup(). Suppose I am passed a type local name (e.g. "int" or "string") as a parameter, then I can cast to that type by doing
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> function-lookup(QName(XSD_NAMESPACE, $type), 1)($input)
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> and if I want the cast to always fail, then I can supply $type := "error".

Thanks for this example.

To put it in other words:  Why was the xs:error type introduced (in
XML Schema)? What purpose does it serve? What problems does it solve?


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

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