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sger6218
sger6218

Reputation: 397

xsl document test failing in IE8 and 9?

I have the following in an XLST document

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:str="http://xsltsl.org/string" xmlns:dt="http://xsltsl.org/date-time" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-datatypes">
<xsl:if test="document('../folder/somefile.xml')">
    <!-- do stuff -->
</xsl:if>

In IE8 and IE9 attempting to process this file results in a JavaScript error,"The system cannot locate the object specified" - and the transform bugs out.

I have read about a 'doc-available' function in XLST2.0, but attempting to use it just gives me an error that the function is not available.

I have seen this question: How check document is available in xsl? - but I'd prefer not to add processor dependent code, so I'm hoping I'm just missing something with 'doc-available'.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 594

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167706

I think the XSLT 1.0 specification (and MSXML used by IE is an XSLT 1.0 processor) allows the XSLT processor do either "signal an error" or to continue by returning an empty node set if a document() call fails. Thus MSXML reporting an error is allowed and not a bug. You will need to make sure outside of XSLT that the file exists.

Upvotes: 1

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