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RE: error in XSL file when using JAXP

2005-07-28 04:20:12
test="distinct-values($aVal[for $a in .
return normalize-space($oVal)[contains(lower-case(.),lower-case($a))]])

I think you're trying to test whether at least one of the values in $aVal
satisfies some condition.

Firstly, I can't see why you're removing duplicates. If some $x in
distinct-values(X) satisfies a condition, then some $x in X must satisfy the
condition, so removing duplicates is unnecessary work.

So this reduces to 

test="exists($aVal[for $a in .
return normalize-space($oVal)[contains(lower-case(.),lower-case($a))]])

But this is still fishy. normalize-space() returns either a string or
nothing (an empty sequence). So it's an odd thing to apply a predicate to. I
think this reduces to

test="exists($aVal[contains(lower-case(normalize-space(.)),
lower-case($a))])"

or if you prefer

test="some $v in $aVal satisfies contains(lower-case(normalize-space($v)),
lower-case($a))"

This isn't precisely equivalent to the meaning of your expression under the
earlier version of the spec, but I suspect it's what you intended. For
example if distinct-values returns a single zero-length string then the EBV
is false, but exists() return true.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Rahil Qamar [mailto:qamar_rahil(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk] 
Sent: 28 July 2005 11:56
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] error in XSL file when using JAXP

Thanks David and Michael

Okay at least I think I know where the problem is
arising now.

I have a section of code soon after the for-each loop
which tests for the common values present in both the
XML files imported at the start of the XSL.

The lines are:
-----------
<xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="distinct-values($aVal[for $a in .
return
normalize-space($oVal)[contains(lower-case(.),lower-case($a))]])">

      <xsl:variable name="matchingVals"
select="distinct-values($aVal[for $a in . return
normalize-space($oVal)[contains(lower-case(.),lower-case($a))]])"/>
                                      
      <xsl:if test="not(empty($matchingVals))">
----------
Now the variable $matchingVals does not contain nodes
but common atomic values.

Is there any other way of writing out this test case
so that I can deal with the new version processor
requirements?

Note: $aVal and $oVal are -
----------
////$arch = File1.xml
////$ont = File2.xml
<xsl:variable name="aVal"
select="$arch/SubConcepts/SubConcept/Value"/>
              
<xsl:for-each select="$ont/SubConcepts/SubConcept">
     <xsl:variable name="oVal" select="."/>

---------

Thanks
Rahil

--- David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:


Line 162 in the said file is :

That is not the line with generating the error
though. (Line numbering
can easily be out due to vagaries in dos/unix line
ends etc.

The error means that you have something like

test="zzzz"  or  ... [zzzzz]  and zzz evaluates to a
sequence whose
first item is not a node but is a number or a string
or some other
atomic value.  If the sequence doesn't consist of
nodes then to use it
as a boolean in a test it has to consist of a single
item, which is a
boolean value either true or false. If the sequence
is a sequence of
nodes then, as in xpath1 it will count as false if
it is empty and true
otherwise.

David



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