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RE: Fallback from document() error
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Fallback from document() error
- From: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:12:16 -0000
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> > While a general exception handling mechanism would be interesting, is it
> > clear why this particular case is an error at all what would be lost in
> > mandating that document() returns an empty node set ...
One problem is where document() is used to retrieve a set of documents, e.g.
document(//a/@href). What happens if some of them exist and some don't?
Mike Kay
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