Runtime Errors from parse-xml not catched

[fsteimke]

Hi,
i have to parse strings with escaped markup, contained in the @body attribute of an ownedComment Element. An example woud be @body='<p>test</p>'

In order to deal with parser errors, which could be caused by typos in the string above, i'd like to use the new try/catch mechanism of XSLT 3.

So i wrote something along these lines:

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<xsl:try>

  <xsl:variable name="doc" as="document-node()" select="parse-xml-fragment(db:escapeEntities($string))"/>

  <xsl:apply-templates select="$doc/*" mode="db-ns"/>

  <xsl:catch>

    <db:para>ERROR</db:para>

  </xsl:catch>

</xsl:try>

Everything works fine as long as the input can be parsed without errors. But if it is not well-formed, or if it contains references to undeclared entities, the runtime error is not catched. I would like to get the DocBook para Element with error as content, but instead the transformation fails with an error message from saxon which tells me, why the string cannot be parsed.

This is a bug, isn't it?

Oxygen 17.0, build 2015051321 on Windows 7 64 bit with Saxon EE 9.6.0.5. Stylesheet Version is 3.0.

Sincerely,
Frank

[radu_pisoi]

Hi,

I have tried to reproduce the problem by running the transformation with Saxon EE 9.6.0.5 from the command line. In this case, the transformation behavior is the expected one. If the document to be parsed is not wellformed then the result of the try instruction is given by the evaluation of the catch clause.

So, this seems to be an oXygen specific issue that comes from the interaction between oXygen and the Saxon processor.
I will register it to our issue tracking system to be resolved in a future oXygen version.

[dsewell]

There is a similar problem with XQuery and fn:parse-xml():

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xquery version "3.0";

declare namespace output = "http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";

declare option output:omit-xml-declaration   "true";



try {

   let $xml-string := '<para>Paragraph</p>'

   return parse-xml($xml-string)

}

catch * {

   <error>{$err:code}</error>

}

If you run that with standalone Saxon 9.6.0.7, the output is

<error>err:FODC0006</error>

and a message is sent to standard error

SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: The element type "para" must be terminated by the
matching end-tag "</para>".

If I run the code in oXygen, I get only the "Transformation problems" message reporting "Error reported by XML parser", but there is no output from the transformation.

I hope that behavior can be fixed -- I also need to use fn:parse-xml() with try/catch in order to find bad quoted HTML that looks like my variable above.

[radu_pisoi]

Hi,

Yes, it seems to be a similar problem. The transformation execution should not be stopped when an dynamic error is caught by try/catch instruction.

I will also register this case in our issue tracking system.

[Radu]

Hi,

Just to update this thread, the issue should be fixed in Oxygen 18.1 which we released a couple of weeks ago.

Regards,
Radu

[dsewell]

Excellent, thanks for the update and the fix.