Re: Possible Additional Requirements for V2 - from EPUB

I mean the restriction should only apply to XSLT 1.0.  XSLT 2.0 should be
allowed to produce an empty sequence.


On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> writes:
> > 2. I think we have an issue with XSLT 2.0.  According to the XSLT 2.0
> specification, it is
> > possible for the primary result document (initial result tree?) to be an
> empty sequence if the
> > stylesheet only uses xsl:result-document (see [2] and I'm not sure I'm
> using the right
> > terminology).  The problem is that it should be an XProc error if the
> output on the result port
> > is empty.  In this case, all the output ends up on the secondary port
> and the result port is an
> > empty sequence.  We should probably make that only apply to XSLT 1.0.
>
> I think you mean XSLT 2.0.
>
> Filed: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22879
>
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