- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:36:26 +0700
- To: "Robert C. Lyons" <boblyons@unidex.com>
- CC: "'xsl-editors@w3.org'" <xsl-editors@w3.org>
"Robert C. Lyons" wrote: > > I'm writing an XSLT stylesheet that must validate some of the > fields in the source document while transforming the > source document into a new XML document. When my XSLT stylesheet > finds a validation error, I would like it to do the following: > > - Write an error message to standard error (rather than to the result tree). > The error message should include the line number within the source > document of the invalid data. > > - Abort the processing of the stylesheet and specify the exit code > that the XSLT processor will return. > > I'm hoping that a future version of XSLT will let me use > the xsl:message instruction to write an error message > to standard error. > > It would also be nice if XSLT provided a function that returned > the line number for a node in the source document. An implementation is free to implement xsl:message by writing a message to stderr with the line number of the current node. James
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