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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
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Section 1.2 "index-of" template |
The template "index-of" incorrectly returns one when the parameter $substr is an
empty string. It should return zero. The culprit is the test with "contains" which
evaluates to true in this case.
One possible workarond is to change the line:
<xsl:when test="contains($input, $substr)">
to:
<xsl:when test="contains($input, $substr) and string-length($substr) > 0">
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Page 83
1st line doesn't match the examples zip file version. |
The algorithm for calculate-julian-date is not quite right in the examples zip file.
The book IS correct - the examples zip file does not take into consideration the leap
year days.
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Page 195
2nd code block |
Line 8 of code uses key('current-grouping-key', ...) which is not defined in the
example. It probably ought to be 'products-by-category'.
Additionally, the <xsl:template> element is not closed properly.
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Page 198
text:wrap code from chapter 5.6 |
Wrapping loses characters if the "word" is longer than the wrap width.
<xsl:call-template name="text:wrap">
<xsl:with-param name="input">1234567890123456789012345678901234567890</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="width" select="10"/>
</xsl:call-template>
returns:
1234567890
2345678901
3456789012
4567890
Fix (template text:wrap, page 198, recursive template call):
<xsl:with-param name="input" select="substring($input, string-length($line) + 2)"/>
...change to be...
<xsl:with-param name="input" select="normalize-space( substring($input, string-length($line) + 1) )"/>
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Page 205
last plain text paragraph |
december 2005 edition of Sal Mangano XSLT Cookbook 2nd edition
Last plain text paragraph on p. 205
I suppose there's a word (eg: don't) missing:
The child element xsl:matching-substring is used to process the substring that
matches the regex and xsl:non-matching-substring is used to process the substrings
that [MISSING?] match the regex.
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Page 212
Example just before section 6.4 |
Your example will NOT strip an arbitrary XML document of all namespaces since it will
copy over any namespace nodes that are children of any elements in the document.
For example, if you have an xml document similar to:
<root>
<child xmlns="my.namespace">
<pet>my pet</pet>
</child>
<root>
The namespace will still be present in the copied document.
A stylehsheet that DOES strip any and all namespaces, including from the above sample
looks as follows:
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | * | text()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
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Page 238-39
Eight examples of logic rather than set theory |
All of the examples read @smoker='y' when they should read @smoker='yes', the form of
the data in people.xml. Thus the first example should read
<!-- Male smokers -->
<xsl:variable name="super-risk"
select="//person[@sex='m' and @smoker='yes']"/>
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Page 245
XSLT code |
xsl-import statement is missing the initial letter v in the attribute, and should
read <xsl:import href="vset.ops.xslt"/>.
Also the xsl:with-param statements are correct in the book but incorrect in the
downloaded code (unique-people.xslt), where they incorrectly read
<xsl:with-param name="node-set1" ...
<xsl:with-param name="node-set2" ...
instead of
<xsl:with-param name="nodes1" ...
<xsl:with-param name="nodes2" ...
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