"Robert C. Lyons" wrote:
> 
> I'm writing an XSLT stylesheet that must validate some of the
> fields in the source document while transforming the
> source document into a new XML document. When my XSLT stylesheet
> finds a validation error, I would like it to do the following:
> 
> - Write an error message to standard error (rather than to the result tree).
>   The error message should include the line number within the source
>   document of the invalid data.

I think that your wish is the working group's command:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xslt#Messages

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