Re: [xsl] user error

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2009-09-10 14:00 -0400, Mike Sokolov wrote:
> Is there a recognized idiom for throwing an exception in XSLT that 
> would abort processing and pass the error state (message, at least) 
> to the invoker of the transformation?
> It looks to me as if this can be achieved using the XPath error() 
> function, but I'm just wondering how folks would typically invoke that.
> Using <xsl:value-of select="error()" /> seems like the most 
> unobtrusive, but I wonder if there is some built-in XSLTism for this.

Review <xsl:message terminate="yes"> for what you need.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . Ken


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