[Bug 29456] New: initial-function-100a et seq: param/@as in test catalog

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=29456

            Bug ID: 29456
           Summary: initial-function-100a et seq: param/@as in test
                    catalog
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Candidate Recommendation
          Hardware: PC
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: XSLT 3.0 Test Suite
          Assignee: abel.online@xs4all.nl
          Reporter: mike@saxonica.com
        QA Contact: public-qt-comments@w3.org
  Target Milestone: ---

In the sequence of tests starting initial-function-100a, we see things like

<param select="'sometoken'" as="xs:token"/>

Now, the semantics of the param/@as attribute are not actually described in the
test catalog documentation, but I would have expected them to follow similar
principles to the XSLT rules. Under those rules the above is an error: the
function conversion rules will not convert an xs:string to an xs:token. If we
want the casting rules to apply, we should say so. However, I think it would be
a lot simpler to write

<param select="xs:token('sometoken')"/>

rather than relying on the test driver to do something as complex as applying
the function conversion rules.

We have 3 choices for the semantics:

(a) the as attribute is merely an assertion about the type
(b) use function conversion rules
(c) use a cast

The last option would not actually work for all existing cases, e.g. where we
have as="xs:string*". I would be inclined to go for (a).

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Received on Sunday, 14 February 2016 14:57:43 UTC