Re: On the interpretation of match=

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

>
>  <p:rename new-name="foo">
>    <p:with-option name="match" select="/doc/a"/>
>  </p:rename>
>
> There's some debate on the xproc-dev thread about it, but after
> looking through the XSLT 2.0 spec, I'm pretty confident that it's an
> error.
>
> I think the shortest argument why is that the BNF for an XSLT 2.0
> Pattern[2] (which we call an XSLTMatchPattern and still need to cite a
> little more carefully) cannot be empty.
>

You're right, and I reverse my position on this. It matches XSLT semantics
to raise a type error (XD0019) on an empty match pattern (just as XSLT
raises an XTSE0340 on <xsl:template match="" />, though XSLT can obviously
always do it statically).

My reasoning that <p:delete match="" /> is (in the above example,
dynamically) equivalent to <p:delete /> is incorrect - it's not!

Thanks for the clarification.

Cheers,
Josh Matthews