Re: [xsl] XSLT 3.0 Output and Serialization: Native XSLT message and error listeners?

Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT 3.0 Output and Serialization: Native XSLT message and error listeners?
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:51:03 +0000
I think the question of how to capture xsl:message output (and for that matter, xsl:result-document output) is a question of API design, which is outside the scope of the spec itself.

The JAXP spec rather clumsily maps xsl:message output to calls on the warning() method of the ErrorListener. This is clumsy because warning() only accepts strings, while xsl:message outputs XML, and the right mapping from the XML to a string isn't clear. Saxon on the Java platform doesn't implement this JAXP mapping, it instead has its own MessageListener interface.

Connecting the xsl:message and xsl:result-document outputs of one stylesheet to the inputs of another is, I think, in the domain of XProc rather than XSLT.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 21/01/2013 20:05, Philip Fearon wrote:
Dear list,

With XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 there is (so far as I know) no specified way of
assigning a 'native' XSLT listener to the message output from
xsl:message instructions or to the error output.

Will this change with the introduction of XSLT 3.0? If so, are there
any publicly available details on this - or perhaps this is planned
for 3.1? Does message and error listening exploit the xsl:output
declaration? Can it exploit the new streaming capabilities in XSLT 3.0
(like xsl:merge) ?

Ideally, I would like to assign an XSLT module to handle all message
and error events - this would avoid needing to shell out to C# or Java
classes using implementation specific interfaces (which just feels
wrong).

A typical use case for this would be for XSLT test frameworks
implemented in XSLT that need to test all message and error outputs
for a given input.

Thanks

Phil Fearon

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