Re: How to generate an XML log using xsl:message?

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Wachter <Stefan.Wachter@xxxxxx> writes:

    Stefan> Hi all, I would like to generate an XML log using
    Stefan> xsl:message instructions. The problem is that I am not
    Stefan> able to generate well formed XML. Each xsl:message
    Stefan> instruction can generate an element in the output. Yet, I
    Stefan> am not able to enclose the output of the various
    Stefan> xsl:message instructions inside a document root element.

    Stefan> Does anyone have a solution for this problem? At the
    Stefan> moment I can only think about concatenating the output
    Stefan> with a starting "<root>" and ending "</root>".

I can think of a number of approaches.

1) Don't write XML. Post-process the output to produce XML.
2) If your XSLT processor gives you the ability to trap xsl:message
output, use that to generate XML from the message text.
3) If you can use XSLT 2.0, then don't use xsl:message, use
xsl:result-document. Alternatively, if you have to use XSLT 1.0, 
but your processor supports EXSLT document, use that, 

I think I'll stop here.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire