OSCAL Styler: Stylesheet does not parse

[aj-stein-nist]

When using the current version of OSCAL Styler with the following example SSP I receive the following error message in the console and a similar error message about a stylesheet failing to parse:

XML Parsing Error: no root element found
Location: https://pages.nist.gov/xslt-blender/oscal-styler/
Line Number 1, Column 1:

[wendellpiez]

This is what happens when the XSLT field is blank.

The error is unavoidable as long as it is blank, but the fact that it is blank could be made more obvious.

In back, the function could also provide for "XSLT is blank" being messaged somewhere, maybe with an alert.

The next commit will have code to provide better error messaging. Also:

• now the styles expander starts open not closed
• hitting Apply Styles jumps the view down (tbd if this is an improvement(

[aj-stein-nist]

It turns out that, until a few days ago when you were demoing it to me and someone else, that I was unaware the starter XSLT was not loaded by default. Reading this message and reflecting on what I saw makes this, well, super obvious. I did not understand that when I quickly tested the first time ... somehow. I shall close!

[wendellpiez]

Yeah you exposed a design flaw 🥇