Hi, I lately implemented custom saxon instructions that allow to create a message boxes or option dialogs from within an XSLT script. Since it turned out to be pretty easy to implement and very useful within my framework, I just wanted to share this idea - and the joy over oxygen, that even this is possible. One use-cases would be a transformation that potentially overwrites an existing file and asks the user before doing so (if the file already exists). The code looks like this: <xsl:if test="java:fileExists($myFile)"> <xsl:variable name="userDecision" as="xs:integer"> <gui:option-dialog title="Warning" options= "('Continue', 'Abort')" default="1"> <xsl:text/>The file '<xsl:value-of select= "$myFile"/>' already exists and will be overwritten.<xsl:text/> </gui:option-dialog> </xsl:variable> <xsl:if test="$userDecision = 1"> <xsl:message terminate="yes">Abort on user request </xsl:message> </xsl:if> </xsl:if> To implement such extension instructions you will have to implement your own java library and put it into oxygens lib folder. To do so follow the saxon documentation at http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/#!extensibility/instructions and - much more important - look at the sample of Saxon-SQL, which is included in the open source edition of saxon: http://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon/files/Saxon-HE/) Make sure to use the same version as included into oxygen! To open the actual dialog you can use something like JOptionPane.showOptionDialog( (Frame)PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace ().getParentFrame(), textString, titleString, (optionList.size() == 2) ? JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION : JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION, JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, null, optionList.toArray(new String[optionList.size()]), defaultOption); (If someone should be interested - I will also gladly share my java code.) There is also an entry in the forum for this: http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic11531.html Regards, Patrik GDV Dienstleistungs-GmbH & Co. KG Glockengießerwall 1 D-20095 Hamburg www.gdv-dl.de Sitz und Registergericht: Hamburg HRA 93 894 USt.-IdNr : DE 205183123 Komplementärin: GDV Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH Sitz und Registergericht: Hamburg HRB 71 153 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Jens Bartenwerfer Michael Bathke Heiko Beermann Volker Sonnenburg ------------------------------------------------------------------ Diese E-Mail und alle Anhänge enthalten vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe der E-Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail and any attached files may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distributionof the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.