• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
  • Getting Started with XSLT
  • Tutorial: Understanding How Templates Work
  • Working with Stylesheets
  • Creating Stylesheets That Generate HTML
  • Specifying Extension Functions in Stylesheets
  • Working with Templates
  • Using Third-Party XSLT Processors
  • Validating Result Documents
  • Post-processing Result Documents
  • Generating Formatting Objects
  • Generating Scalable Vector Graphics
  • Generating Java Code for XSLT
  • XSLT Instructions Quick Reference
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      • Description
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    • xsl:number
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    • xsl:sort
    • xsl:strip-space
    • xsl:stylesheet
    • xsl:template
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    • xsl:value-of
    • xsl:variable
    • xsl:when
    • xsl:with-param
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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xsl:message

Sends a message in a way that is dependent on the XSLT processor.

Format

<xsl:message terminate="yes" | "no">
               
  <!-- Content: template -->
               
</xsl:message>
               

            

Description

The content of the xsl:message instruction is a template. If the value of the terminate attribute is yes, the XSLT processor instantiates the template to create text. The processor aborts stylesheet processing and sends the text as part of the error message that indicates that stylesheet processing has terminated.

The default value of the terminate attribute is no. If you specify terminate="no" or if you do not specify the terminate attribute, the XSLT processor displays the message in the Stylus Studio Output Window but does not terminate the process.