Re: Porblems with pxf:copy xmlcalabash-1.5.7-120

On 17/04/2024 15:56, Benjamin W. Bohl wrote:
> Dear list:eners,
>
> I'm still learning XProc and wanted to copy some image files from a
> directory using pxf:copy in my pipeline running on xmlcalabash-1.5.7-120.
>
> Nevertheless, I cannot make it work and always get a strange
> SaxonAPIError:
>
> com.xmlcalabash.core.XProcException: XProc error err:XD0045
> […]
> Caused by: net..sf.saxon.s9api.SaxonApiException: The string
> "file:/Volumes/VCS/SVN/bazga-ed..." cannot be cast to a boolean
>
> The string that throws the error is my target option for pxf:copy.


The documentation https://xmlcalabash.com/docs/reference/pxf-copy.html
indeed declares the type of target as boolean

|<p:declare-step||type||="||pxf:copy||"||xmlns:pxf||="||http://exproc.org/proposed/steps/file||"||>|
|<p:output||port||="||result||"||primary||="||false||"||/>|
|<p:option||name||="||href||"||required||="||true||"||/>||||<!--
|anyURI| -->|
|<p:option||name||="||target||"||required||="||true||"||/>||||<!--
|boolean| -->|
|<p:option||name||="||fail-on-error||"||select||="||'true'||"||/>||||<!--
|boolean| -->|
|</p:declare-step>|


Hopefully Norm or someone else can explain you how to correctly use the
step.