Summary A named template that will halt an XSLT tranformation and reutrn some helpful state information

Additional information

<xsl:template name="break"> <xsl:param name="number" select="'0'"/> <xsl:param name="msg"/> <xsl:message terminate="yes"> A user breakpoint was encountered: Error number=<xsl:value-of select="$number"/> Error description=<xsl:value-of select="$msg"/> Current XML node={<xsl:value-of select="namespace-uri(.)"/>}:<xsl:value-of select="local-name(.)"/> Current XML context=<xsl:call-template name="path"/> </xsl:message> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="path"> <xsl:param name="node" select="."/> <xsl:if test="$node"> <xsl:call-template name="path"> <xsl:with-param name="node" select="$node/parent::node()"/> </xsl:call-template> <xsl:if test="$node/parent::node()"> <xsl:text>/</xsl:text> </xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="name($node)"/> <xsl:call-template name="pos"> <xsl:with-param name="node" select="$node"/> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="pos"> <xsl:param name="node"/> <xsl:if test="$node"> <xsl:variable name="thisPosition" select="count($node/preceding-sibling::*[name($node) = name()~)"/> <xsl:variable name="numFollowing" select="count($node/following-sibling::*[name($node) = name()~)"/> <xsl:if test="$thisPosition + $numFollowing > 0"> <xsl:value-of select="concat('[', $thisPosition + 1, '~')"/> </xsl:if> </xsl:if> </xsl:template>