Re: [xsl] Dumping a variable

[Aidan Lister <aidanis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fantastic, thanks.

Regards,
Aidan


On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:35:23 -0800 (PST), Marian Olteanu
<mou_softwin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> --- Aidan Lister <aidanis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Dump has certain connotations to a programmer, forgive me for not
> > explaining it better.
> >
> > Dump is a term we use, mainly for debugging, where the raw contents of
> > something are "dumped" or displayed to the screen.
> >
> > My variable contains a nodeset. I want to view the nodeset it contains
> > as if it were XML, I don't want the nodeset to be transformed (this is
> > what I meant by parsed, sorry).
> >
> > I tried using message and copy-of, however only the text and not the
> > nodeset were displayed.
> >
> > Hi Marian,
> >
> > Thanks for your invaluable advice, however variable-dump doesn't seem
> > to do anything!
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Aidan
> >
> 
> XSLT file:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>         <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8"/>
>         <xsl:template match="/">
>                 <xsl:variable name="t" select="//p"/>
>                 <my-normal-output>
>                         <etc>...</etc>
>                         <!-- here you dump variable t-->
>                         <variable-dump name="t"><xsl:copy-of select="$t"/></variable-dump>
>                 </my-normal-output>
>         </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> XML file:
> <root>
>         <p>test</p>
>         <a><p>test <b>with bold</b></p></a>
>         <b><p>test <p>with p</p></p></b>
> </root>
> 
> Output:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><my-normal-output><etc>...</etc><variable-dump
> name="t"><p>test</p><p>test <b>with bold</b></p><p>test <p>with p</p></p><p>with
> p</p></variable-dump></my-normal-output>
> 
> =====
> 
> 
> Marian
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~mgo031000/
> 
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