something like this?


<xsl:param name="debug-flag" select="0"/>

...


<xsl:if test="$debug-flag &gt; 0">
  <xsl:message>foo</xsl:message>
  <xt:document href="debug-trace.txt">....</xt:document>
</xsl:if>

...

xt file.xml style.xsl out.xml debug-flag=6


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