Re: [xsl] debugging xslt

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stylus Studio and oXygen both have good debuggers.

Many XSLT bugs, however, boil down to path expressions that don't select 
anything. Debuggers will often point you quickly to the path expression 
that's faulty, but after that it's usually a question of staring at the 
path until you see what's wrong - unless you invest the effort into 
writing schema-aware code, in which case there's a prospect that the 
compiler will be able to tell you when you write impossible paths.

Michael Kay
Saxonica


On 11/06/2010 19:56, Monosij Dutta-Roy wrote:
> I am new to XSLT. However I  have gotten some transforms running. In
> general my background is Java / Oracle - and with that I am wondering
> what is a good way to debug XSLT other than printing output.
>
> I have also resorted to testing out XPath expressions in Java to check
> what they contain and then trying them in XSLT. Just wondering if
> there is a better way.
>
> Thanks.
>
> monosij