Saxon 9.2 rejects string literals in PITests?

[Norman Walsh]

Mike,

It appears that Saxon 9.2 rejects the expression:

  processing-instruction('test')

The XPath 2.0 spec says that form is allowed for backwards compatibility,
but doesn't appear to require backwards compatibility mode to be enabled
for this functionality. At least,

  http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#prod-xpath-PITest

suggests to me that it should always be accepted.

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[Michael Kay]

It should work, and it works for me. What's the context in which it's
failing?

Regards,

Michael Kay
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@...]
> Sent: 20 October 2009 22:57
> To: saxon-help@...
> Subject: [saxon] Saxon 9.2 rejects string literals in PITests?
>
> Mike,
>
> It appears that Saxon 9.2 rejects the expression:
>
>   processing-instruction('test')
>
> The XPath 2.0 spec says that form is allowed for backwards
> compatibility, but doesn't appear to require backwards
> compatibility mode to be enabled for this functionality. At least,
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#prod-xpath-PITest
>
> suggests to me that it should always be accepted.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
> --
> Norman Walsh <ndw@...> | A man who is 'of sound mind'
> is one who
> http://nwalsh.com/            | keeps the inner madman under lock and
>                               | key.--Paul Valéry
>

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[Norman Walsh]

"Michael Kay" <mike@...> writes:

> It should work, and it works for me. What's the context in which it's
> failing?

I'm evaluating an XPath expression that came from an XProc step. I'll
see if I can put together a small test case that demonstrates the
problem.

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[Norman Walsh]

"Michael Kay" <mike@...> writes:

> It should work, and it works for me. What's the context in which it's
> failing?

<blush>Nevermind. Red herring. It was a quoted string problem
introduced by carelessly implementing the untypedAtomic
workaround.</blush>

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