Re: [xsl] Merging multiple documents with document() funtion

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 2002-01-14 18:47 +0000, Paul Sprakes wrote:
>I have a source xml document which defines multiple url's to rss feeds. I
>then use an xsl transformation to combine these using a call to
>document(url) and then transform them into a single html page. Eveything
>works fine until one of the url's can't be reached (i.e. server goes down).
>When this happens, the processing stops

This is an acceptable behaviour according to 12.1:

   If there is an error retrieving the resource, then
   the XSLT processor may signal an error; if it does
   not signal an error, it must recover by returning
   an empty node-set.

>and no more url's will be loaded.
>
>Is there any way to get the processor to continue to the next url if the
>prevous one cannot be resolved?

This is a discretionary item for the processor to implement as it chooses 
according to the two behaviours described by the specification ... there is 
no XSLT way to force one behaviour or the other, this is an aspect of 
vendor differentiation.  Check the documentation of the vendors' tools.

.................. Ken


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