output "TARGET NOT FOUND" when an #XREF fails to resolve?

[naglists]

Hi,
I'm fairly certain it's not possible to do this, but I'm not finding
confirmation the adepters archives. I would like to output some stock
warning if a cross reference fails at composition. Does anyone have a
stylesheet trick for this?

I can validate the XML before submitting it, but I'm hoping to be able to
deliver a FIXMEDUDE type of warning to the output. So far I'm not able to
figure out how to do that.

Thanks.

--
Paul Nagai

[ClayHelberg]

Hi Paul--



My first thought about this would be to add a condition that checks for
the existence of the target and adds the FIXMEDUDE text in that case.
You could use XPath for this, basically just use the XPath id() function
to find the target of the href.



Have you tried something like this? If so, in what way didn't it solve
your problem?



--Clay



Clay Helberg

Senior Consultant



TerraXML

1380 Forest Park Circle, Suite 100

Lafayette, CO 80027

[naglists]

Thanks, Clay.

See other conversation re: what you learn first informing what you
remember/think of as possible.

<att>
<specval attname="count(id(@ID))" attloc="#XPATH" attval="0">
<charsubset>
<usetext source="FIXMEDUDE"></usetext>
</charsubset>
</att>