RE: New xsl:message

: Steve Muench  wrote:

>It *looks* like the line number, but given a file like:
>
><list>
>  <thing id="1"/>
>  <thing id="2"/>
>  <thing id="3"/>
>  <thing id="4"/>
>  <thing id="5"/>
></list>
>
>And a stylesheet of:
>
><list xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>   <xsl:for-each select="//*">
>     <xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="@id"/></xsl:message>
>   </xsl:for-each>
></list>
>
>I see the message output of:
>
>file:/C:/TEMP/list.xml:1:
>file:/C:/TEMP/list.xml:2: 1
>file:/C:/TEMP/list.xml:3: 2
>file:/C:/TEMP/list.xml:4: 3
>file:/C:/TEMP/list.xml:5: 4
>file:/C:/TEMP/list.xml:6: 5
>
>So it seems like something else, like some
>other kind of node-id other than generate-id()
>would give you.


Mmmm. I see. This is what James uses for his
error reports.

Thanks Steve. I was hoping for access to line number
for 'commenting' on a source file in the output stream,
as in 

file:/C:/TEMP/list.xml:5: img element with no alt text.

Is this generally useful, or is my usage off beat?
And the feed to error stream is useful, perhaps what
I'm asking for is the same, but as part of the normal
output, perhaps
 <xsl:source-location />  or similar?
Regards, DaveP


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