[xquery-talk] Collections - family relationships

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2014-01-17 18:14 +0000, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>Continuing on the them of recreating the limitations of the physical world.
>
><xsl:apply-templates select="someNode"/>
>
>where someNode does not exist in the document has no effect.
>
><xsl:apply-templates select="doc('somedoc'/someNode)

That expression is addressing the node as an argument to doc(), not 
as an operand of the return to doc().

>where somedoc doesn't exist .....error - failed to load document.
>
>But really it's just another non-existent node.

You are jumping to a preconceived conclusion without considering that 
you probably wanted to write:

   <xsl:apply-templates select="doc('somedoc')/someNode"/>

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . Ken

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