- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 04:36:53 +0200
- To: David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk, public-qt-comments@w3.org
> quote. The location and format of the trace data set are > *implementation defined*. unquote. > > So we may have this 'debug' information > a) Added to the serialised output. > b) Output to an error file > c) Output to a terminal screen. > And any one could be selected by an XSLT implementation? > Which screws portability nicely? > > > For XSLT I'd request the output 'location' (If I understand that term > correctly) > be defined. I.e. to follow the content of xsl:message. > The format and destination of the output of xsl:message have always been implementation-defined. I would expect most XSLT implementors to send the output of fn:trace() to the same destination as the output of xsl:message, but I don't see any need to constrain them to do so. Once we make things implementation-defined, I think we should make them completely implementation-defined. Michael Kay
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