Joerg Heinicke wrote: > Ok, reason accepted :) But what about an extra validating > transformer as > last pipeline step? Seems to make more sense IMO.
YES! This could be VERY useful: a transfomer that could validate the output of some pipeline stage against a DTD or other schema could be a great help for debugging. You wouldn't have to download the file and validate it with an external tool. It might even have a role in production systems for validating input from forms, web services etc? <map:transform type="dtd-validator"> <map:parameter name="dtd" value="dtd/stage-1.dtd"/> </map:transform>