If you are working in Oxygen, or similar XML editor,
viewing the outline of an XSLT stylesheet also
displays the modes for each template. You can make
sure they all match that should, see at a glance which
template is in no mode at all, or one, or
two... Oxygen also lets you sort by mode in this view.
--Debbie
On Apr 19, 2019, at 2:41 PM, David Sewell dsewell(_at_)virginia(_dot_)edu
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
I just spent too much time completely puzzled about why a particular template
was not producing correct/expected output before realizing that in many cases
the template was not matching anything -- because some time ago I had added a
mode to certain instances of <xsl:template> and <xsl:apply-templates> without
being sure to adjust other templates in the stylesheet.
Adding mode="#all" to my failing template fixed the problem.
Obviously one could prevent many such problems by checking for the existence
of @mode in a stylesheet before working with it. Remembering always to do
that is the problem. Any other suggestions? (I guess one could make a habit
of adding an <xsl:message> to the template matching the root to warn that the
template is using modes.)
David
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The University of Virginia Press
Email: dsewell(_at_)virginia(_dot_)edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973
Web: http://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda
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