10.3. Generating Error Messages and Logs
Error messages and log files are particularly important to programmers who need to debug or track changes in the processes of their code. XSLT provides a method, using <xsl:message>, to generate logs or messages, whether they are stored as files or sent to the screen as message windows, based on processor-specific implementations.
10.3.1. The <xsl:message> Instruction Element
The <xsl:message> instruction element is a way for the XSLT processor to communicate “outside” of itself and outside of the XSLT stylesheet being processed. It has one optional attribute, terminate, with a possible value of yes or no, as shown in the following element model definition. The content of the <xsl:message> element is a ...
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