I often use xsl:comment or xsl:text to add debugging output in preference to
xsl:message - or even literal result elements. It's often more useful to see
these messages interspersed with the real stylesheet output.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 20 Mar 2021, at 19:29, Chris Papademetrious
christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Ahh, I'll switch to xsltfiddle -- thanks very much for doing this for the
community!
>
> The only thing I wish it had was a console pane that showed <xsl:message/>
output. This would let me instrument code in real-time as I try things out.