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document() missing the document
- From: Bernd Gauweiler <bernd at gauweiler dot net>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:01:20 +0100
- Subject: [xsl] document() missing the document
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I'm trying to copy a node set from an external document, using
<xsl:copy-of select="document('zorro.xml')/......"/>. This is part of a
transformation that is being kicked off via the selectSingleNode /
transformNode() javascript interface in IE. Works great, provided
zorro.xml actually exists.
If zorro.xml doesn't exist, or the server is down, IE6 produces a
Javascript exception and the transformation fails.
Is there a way to write the XSLT stylesheet so that zorro.xml is
optional? In other words, for the transformation to succeed even if
document() fails?
I seems to me the XSLT standard says that document() can return an empty
node set if the file doesn't exist, or produce an error
(implementation-specific), and it seems MSXML implements the latter
whilst I need the former.
Any clues?
TIA
Bernd
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