Saxon

SourceForge user: mhkay

The spurious error message

Cannot cast to xdt:anyAtomicType

occurs when a "cast as" expression is used within an

enclosed expression in a direct attribute constructor,

for example

(the reason for this is that such enclosed expressions

must be initially processed without knowledge of the

in-scope namespaces, since namespace declarations can

follow attributes. So there is a "scan only" mode of

parsing, and in this mode any reference to an atomic

type name is treated temporarily as a reference to

xdt:anyAtomicType. But a cast to xdt:anyAtomicType is

not permitted, and Saxon 8.5 is checking for this error

during the "scan only" phase of processing).

Source fix: at line664 of

net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionParser.java, change

if (scanOnly) {

        return Type.ANY_ATOMIC_TYPE;

    }

to

if (scanOnly) {

        return Type.STRING_TYPE;

    }