Re: Pattern matching error in xsl:key

On 05.09.2020 20:48, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> I solved this problem before starting this thread. Yes the select
> attribute needs to be quoted, no the type annotations doesn't make a
> difference.

>>     If you are passing the parameters from the outside I think we need to
>>     see details of the tool (Saxon command line, which shell, oXygen, Saxon
>>     API with Java code) to ease the task

So how do you use Saxon, how do you pass parameters?

If you write an XPath literal for a number type in an XSLT "select"
attribute then using

   as="xs:string"

of course doesn't help. It would be like writing Java code

   String d = 4.1;

If you pass in parameters from the outside then using the "as" attribute
can make a difference as to which type the parameter value has on the
XSLT/XPath/XQuery side (which then can allow the use of "eq" instead of
"=").