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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4721 Programmer's assertion in getNextStepPos: unknown stepType: -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-02 00:55 ------- I feel otherwise (Re: Joe's comment). I was bitten by this error message too. Even though I, and Yannick, and George, had committed syntax errors, that does not mean that this error message is not a bug. "Unknown stepType: -1" gives no clue as to what the error is. As most programmers have experienced, unhelpful error messages can lead to hours of frustration and lost productivity. It's not my intent to rant, just to emphasize that just because the programmer has committed a syntax error doesn't relieve the processor of all responsibility to respond in an appropriate way. This is one reason I like to keep Saxon around: when Xalan gives an error message that doesn't help, Saxon usually does a better job. In this case, I had an incomplete XPath expression in a test: <xsl:if test="$entity/*/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = $role and (@function ='none' or @function = 'read')] and"> (note the "and" with nothing after it). I only discovered this because Saxon gave the error "E Error in expression $entity/*/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = $role and (@function ='none' or @function = 'read')] and: Unexpected token EOF in expression model.xsl file:/C:/Program%20Files/Apache%20Group/cocoon/mount/gem3/standards/r3/c2/model.xsl 53:0" Very helpful. So, the suggested fix would be to print an error message that gives indications of what would have caused this condition. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
