29149 2015-09-24 09:09:27 +0000 [XSLT30] XTDE0420 on attributes/namespaces in document nodes 2015-10-29 12:42:27 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XSLT 3.0 Last Call drafts PC Windows NT CLOSED WORKSFORME P2 normal --- 1 abel.braaksma mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 123306 0 abel.braaksma 2015-09-24 09:09:27 +0000 In section 5.8.1 Constructing Complex Content, we write in step 7 [ERR XTDE0420] It is a dynamic error if the result sequence used to construct the content of a document node contains a namespace node or attribute node. However, in step 4 we write: 4. Any document node within the result sequence is replaced by a sequence containing each of its children, in document order. So, after step 4 we have removed the document nodes. While I understand that this rule is here to prevent a document node to have namespace or attribute nodes, in an earlier step we have already removed any document nodes, resulting in this error never being thrown. I think the effect is depth-first, which means that we can only reach step 4 after in a previous cycle we reached step 7 for the children. Perhaps we can swap these rules for clarity? 123309 1 mike 2015-09-24 21:44:09 +0000 XTDE0420 is about constructing document nodes, it applies when the containing instruction is xsl:document, xsl:result-document, or xsl:copy with the context item being a document node. This has nothing to do with whether the value of the sequence delivered by the sequence constructor contains any document nodes; furthermore replacing a document node by its children will never cause the sequence to contain attribute or namespace nodes because they cannot occur as children of a document node. 123311 2 abel.braaksma 2015-09-25 02:22:57 +0000 Let's close this with no action. The ambiguity came from a recent scan through this section. We implemented it the way you describe it, so there are no practical implications.