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RE: [xsl] [XSLT] xsl:message output encoding ?

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> > I don't think that using the same format as the principal 
> output makes very
> > much sense - why should it be the same? However, I can see 
> an argument for
> > providing some control. Some people only ever use 
> xsl:message for simple
> > text messages, in which case escaping < and > doesn't make 
> much sense; but
> > if you use it to output chunks of XML, like
> > 
> > <xsl:message>Value of $tree: <xsl:copy-of 
> select="$tree"/></xsl:message>
> > 
> > then using the XML output method makes much more sense.
> 
> Exactly.  Is there any way to achieve that in XSLT 2.0?
> 

XSLT 2.0 provides no more control over the format or destination of
xsl:message output than XSLT 1.0 did. It's all implementation-defined. Saxon
provides you with some control, but only if you're prepared to do some Java
coding.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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