Re: [xml-dev] Be careful writing XPath expressions when the XML could have non-existent elements

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:39:03 -0400
John Cowan <> wrote:
[...] what I could see would be an XSLT feature to make it an
> error
> to match against a path that matches nothing.  There would need to be a way
> to turn this on and off selectively, of course.

A schema-aware XSLT 2 (or 3) processor may be able to provide a warning. It's easier to imagine how to implement such a warning in the simple child::* step a/b/c than with arbitrary expressions, though.

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