Hi,
Using 9.7.1
(: test transform :)
let $xslt:=<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"    version="3.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:message>I want to see all of the very long message aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
        aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb  cccccccccccc hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
        gggggg  gggggggggggggggggg aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa important bit</xsl:message>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
return xslt:transform-report(<xml/>,$xslt)?messages

Returns
["I want to see all of the very long message aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&#xA;        aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb  cccccccccccc hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh&#xA;        gggggg  gggggggggggggggggg aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."]

Is it BaseX truncating this? Can it be turned off for this case?

/Andy