Re: [xml-dev] Rick Jelliffe's article on XSLT 1.0 performance

[Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp>]

On 15/02/2017 09:57, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
...
> For Schematron I am still not sure whether it would be better to have
>
> <sch:rule context="person">
>    <sch:let name="payrate"  value="//rate[$for = current()/@class]"
> as="xs:number"/>
>
> or
>
>
> <sch:rule context="person">
>    <sch:let name="payrate"  value="//rate[$for = current()/@class]"  />
>
>   <sch:assert tes"number(payrate)" >The payrate should be a
> number</sch:assert>
Presumably the second form is 'better' Schematron because it has a
human-readable message. The separate test also means that you can do
things like have separate messages if a value that should be an integer
is a number but not an integer or is not a number at all.

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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XML Division
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