Yes, indeed--now to train my eye to pay attention to that!
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Debbie Lapeyre dalapeyre(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com wrote:
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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