RE: msxsl.exe doesn't show xsl:message

Bryan,

You might check out Xselerator (www.marrowsoft.com), as it has great XSL 
debugging (step-through, breakpoints, etc.)

-Corey





"Bryan Rasmussen" <bry@xxxxxxxxxx>
03/27/2002 10:03 AM
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>From the MSDN documentation for <xsl:message />

>The <xsl:message> element provides a mechanism to debug XSL 
Transformations
(XSLT) style
>sheets in progress. Whenever an <xsl:message> element is encountered, if
the terminate flag is set to "yes" (the default), >then the XSLT processor
quits, and
>sends a system-level error message. Expressions contained within the
<xsl:message> element evaluate relative to the current >context, making
message a good way to watch individual elements.
>If terminate is set to "no", then the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0
ignores the
>command. This is a good way to disable error handling without removing it
>entirely from your Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) style sheet,
>although upcoming implementations can send such messages out to a log
>file. (This is not currently supported.)
>It doesn't look like the message gets sent to the console. Just sends a
>system-level error message.

thanks corey, looks like I'll have to debug in saxon :)


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