Re: An Invalid xpath expression xsl:template/@match node is ignored

On 31/07/2012 17:46, Nicolas Delaby wrote:
>
> Dear libxslt maintainers,
> I discover that performing a transformation with a invalid xpath
> expression in a template match attribute doesn't prevent the
> transformation to perform and lead to compromise the transformation logic.
> Instead, I would expect to have a proper failure like `could not compile
> match expression`

The way I read it, this behavior doesn't violate the specification. 
Section 17 "Conformance" says:

"A conforming XSLT processor must signal any errors except for those 
that this document specifically allows an XSLT processor not to signal. 
A conforming XSLT processor may but need not recover from any errors 
that it signals."

libxslt does signal the error and tries to recover by ignoring the template.

Nick