Re: Follow-up question wrt the previous post

Henry,

Do you have a strong use case for that feature ?

Xmlizer

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> So, if I want to detect and handle specially the case where an
> optional option has not been specificed, how can I do so?
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> Using p:try seems awfully heavyweight.
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> In XSLT, I can distinguish between the empty string and the empty node
> set, so we see the common idiom
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>  <xsl:param name="foo" select="xyzzy"/>
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> But since XProc options are always string-valued, there's no obvious
> default which can be reliably distinguished from a supplied value.
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> ht
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