Re: [Bug 1319] definition of a XSLT processor

Thank you Mike for update about this subject. I am
obliged, that XSL WG is spending its precious time on
this trivial point.

Regards,
Mukul

--- bugzilla@wiggum.w3.org wrote:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1319
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From mike@saxonica.com 
> 2005-05-20 21:37 -------
> A further progress report following XSL WG meetings
> this week:
> 
> (a) we decided that a transformation always produces
> at least one result tree.
> Contrary to what's stated in a couple of places at
> the moment, if the initial
> template returns an empty sequence and if
> xsl:result-document has not been
> called, then an empty result tree should be produced
> (in practice, if you are
> serializing, the output destination should be
> overwritten with an empty file).
> 
> (b) we realized that there's a problem with the
> current text if the initial
> template has an "as" attribute, for example if it
> is:
> 
> <xsl:template match="xs:integer+">
>   <xsl:sequence select="1 to 5"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> The current rules say this is equivalent to
> 
> <xsl:template match="xs:integer+">
>  <xsl:result-document>
>   <xsl:sequence select="1 to 5"/>
>  </xsl:result-document>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> which would give a type error; but that's
> problematic since we don't know in
> advance which template will be the initial entry
> template.
> 
> (c) we also realized that there's nothing in the
> spec currently which says
> whether or not an implementation is allowed to
> provide alternative processing
> models for running the code in a stylesheet, for
> example by calling an
> xsl:function directly from the API.
> 
> So we're leaving the bug open for the moment as our
> placeholder for sorting out
> these issues with the processing model.
> 
> Michael Kay
> 
> 

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