Re: Where are xsl:messages sent in JAXP?

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:19:35 -0700 (PDT), Charlie Consumer
<faceless1976@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if this is not the forum to ask these questions.
>  Please point me in the right direction if there is a
> better place to ask this.
> 
> I would like to use the xsl:message feature to send
> progress information back to a Swing UI while my XSL
> is performing a transformation.  I was wondering if I
> could hook my client code into the XSL Transform
> object to receive messages sent from the XSL using
> xsl:message?
> 
> I think I know the answer to this one, but is there a
> way to hook the Transform API so I can ask for user's
> input while transforming their document?  For example,
> if I find some erroneous data it would be nice if I
> could prompt the user and ask if it's ok if repair his
> document.  A simple boolean returned from the user
> back to the XSL script would suffice.  I might be able
> to do it with a document() call.  Use a URIResolver to
> hook the document() function, and return an XML
> document like <true/> or <false/> back to the
> stylesheet.  Sounds kinda hacky, but it could work.

Hi,

    The behaviour of xsl:message is implementation defined. Under
Xalan, it goes to stdout I believe. However, under Xalan, one can also
implement the interface javax.xml.transform.ErrorListener and use that
to capture the exception event and then do as you please.

Regards,
Kenneth