At 2010-04-07 10:06 -0400, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
I know that when I run an XSLT transform from the DOS command line,
the contents of <xsl:message> goes to the command line.
Sounds like you are using Saxon and it is actually going to the error
port. You can redirect it with:
2>filename
If I invoke an XSLT transform using, say, a Java program, where does
the <xsl:message> content go? If there are multiple <xsl:message>
elements, does their content all go to the same place? Where?
It is implementation defined. The spec doesn't say where they go at all:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt20-20070123/#message
"The xsl:message instruction sends a message in an
implementation-defined way."
Is it the same for every XSLT processor?
Not at all. Saxon puts them to the error port. IE ignores all
except those with terminate="yes". And even then I think IE
truncates a long message.
What happens to the in-memory result tree when the XSLT processor
encounters an <xsl:message terminate="yes"> element?
It is the same as a dynamic error:
When a transformation is terminated by use of xsl:message
terminate="yes", the effect is the same as when a
non-recoverable dynamic error occurs during the transformation.
I've found sometimes that if I've finished off the result tree
document element and then run terminate="yes" that the file is okay,
but I can't rely on that.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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