saxon:message-count
Returns a count of the number of messages that have been output using xsl:message.
message-count($errCode as xs:QName?) ➔ xs:integer
Arguments | |||
| $errCode | xs:QName? | The error code associated with the messages |
Result | xs:integer | ||
Namespace
http://saxon.sf.net/
Notes on the Saxon implementation
Available since Saxon 9.8.
Details
If the $errCode argument is set to an empty sequence, the function returns
the total number of times that the xsl:message instruction has been executed,
during the current transformation.
If the $errCode argument is set to a QName, the function returns
the total number of times that the xsl:message instruction has been executed,
during the current transformation, with that QName as the error code value.
Because this function relies on xsl:message having side-effects,
the result is not always guaranteed predictable.
Typical use cases include not outputting further messages after a certain threshold has been reached, or terminating execution after a certain threshold has been reached.
The function can also be used for diagnostic instrumentation, for example counting how many times a particular method has been executed (the "error code", of course, can be any QName and does not need to represent an actual error).
The counters maintained by xsl:message are also available on completion
of the transformation through the Java method Controller.getMessageCounters().