Subject: xsl:message conformance From: "Mark D. Anderson" <mda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 10:15:21 -0800 |
currently the xslt spec says very little about when/if an xsl:message is run. so far as i can make out, a processor could choose to ignore it completely and still be conformant -- even with terminate="yes". i'd suggest that a minimal conformance criteria be: - if a template is not used, then any xsl:message it contains is not run - if a template is used, then any immediate xsl:message children it contains are run at least once (but not necessarily the same number of times as the template is "used"). - xsl:message instructions are run inside of conditionals (if, for-each, when, and the implicit if from an xsl:param default value) if and only the parent element is used, and the test passes. - something about terminate="yes".... Thoughts? James Clark wrote: >As regards the XT output for xsl:message, note that the XSLT spec only >tells you what the final result tree should be: it doesn't say anything >about how templates are to be instantiated in order to achieve that >result tree. This means that the spec gives you few guarantees about >when you will see messages from xsl:message. XT takes advantage of the >latitude afforded by the spec, and evaluates result tree fragments >lazily (when a variable is bound to a result tree fragment it doesn't >actually create the result tree fragment, it merely remembers the >information that it needs to create the tree; when you use xsl:copy-of >on the variable, XT then uses that information to output the result tree >fragment, without ever creating a tree in memory). I don't recommend >using xsl:message with XT for tracing result tree fragments: you'll just >get confused. I don't believe XT's behaviour is non-conformant. -mda XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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