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Re: Using or ignoring Types in XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0

2003-05-13 12:38:11
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk>


The error isn't recoverable, but it is preventable. Before attempting
the conversion of a string to a dateTime, you can test:

<xsl:if test="$x castable as xs:dateTime">

Thanks Michael, that's what I was missing.  This just invokes the lexical
parsing of $x and compares with the lexical requirements for xs:dateTime,
correct?  Or is its behavior more determined than that?

Just a minor nit, wouldn't syntactic consistency suggest *castable-as* for the
operator name?  Is it really two tokens?

Mike


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