Subject: RE: [xsl] Stepping through XPath in a visual XPath debugger From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:44:13 -0400 |
Wendell: A useful insight into the world of XSLT training. Its interesting that you have reservations on introducing abbreviated XPath to students too early.
The problem faced by this tool (as with many) is that it has to meet the conflicting needs of a number of different types of user. From beginners to experts and from occasional users to freqeunt users. It may be that I should introduce a special mode that could avoid the use of XPath abbreviations in debugging and in auto-generation. The auto-complete feature could also be bolstered to ensure full support for the non-abbreviated form.
You mention that, in training, there is no real substitute for concrete examples. Do you know a good non-copyright resource for such examples - preferably in xml form? One of the features of this application is to allow the development and management of large (xml) libraries of XPath expressions. The import feature (using a 'special' XPath library) could make use of such a resource. Initially this would be helpful for testing but these could also be included with the product if and when this gets past 'Beta'state.
Cheers, Wendell
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