[oXygen-user] request: resolve entity refs in err msgs

[Mark Baker]

Syd,

The output of xsl:message is not a text string, it is an XML fragment. Per
the XSLT spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#message): 

The xsl:message instruction sends a message in a way that is dependent on
the XSLT processor. The content of the xsl:message instruction is a
template. The xsl:message is instantiated by instantiating the content to
create an XML fragment. This XML fragment is the content of the message.

Since "<" has to be escaped when an XML fragment is serialized, you are
going to see &lt; in any reasonable representation of the message output.
The upside of the fact that the output of xsl:message is an XML fragment is
that you can put an actual "duck" element into the message:

<xsl:message>I found a <duck/> element</xsl:message> 

Or 

<xsl:message>I found a <duck>...</duck> element</xsl:message> 

Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:  
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Syd Bauman
> Sent: September 11, 2009 11:59 AM
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> Subject: [oXygen-user] request: resolve entity refs in err msgs
> 
> [Apologies if this is a repeat -- I haven't done a good search of the
> archives, etc.]
> 
> 
> I often use "<" and ">" to indicate that a word is the name of an XML
> element type. I even do this in diagnostic and error messages. E.g.:
>   <xsl:message>I found a &lt;duck> element</xsl:message>
> 
> In oXygen, the message that is output to the Messages tab has the
> less than and greater than escaped as entity references:
>   [Saxon6.5.5] I found a &lt;duck&gt; element.
> 
> Same is true for messages generated from Schematron validation. I
> realize that at one point in life those messages were in XML
> documents (e.g., SVRL), but I'd really like to *see* pointy brackets.
> Is there or could there be an option to display these as characters
> instead of entity references?
> 
> Thanks for listening.
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