RE: include vs. xsl:import

[Matthew Bentley <Matthew dot bentley at brookers dot co dot nz>]

>Thanks Matt.  Which processor do you regularly use?  SAXON doesn't seem to
>be a help in this regard.  When two conflicting template rules are in the
>same stylesheet (by inclusion or not), SAXON gives priority to the one that
>is last in the stylesheet.  This isn't to say it is not conformant.  As
Mike
>Kay points out in his book, the W3C spec says, "It is an error if this
>leaves more than one match. An XSLT processor may signal the error; if it
>does not signal the error, it must recover by choosing, from amongst the
>matches that are left, the one that occurs last in the stylesheet."  My
>question is, why have this as an option at all?  It seems like for every
>option, there's a whole 'nother slew of headaches.

Hi Evan - 
yes, I use Saxon too, but to pick up the duplicate templates I used
sablotron.
In my (personal) opinion, there should not be an option to 'ignore' this
particular error, as in that case you might as well be using xsl:import.

Cheers,
Matt
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