[xsl] Re: stylesheet debug/dump

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> What I would really like is a tool that matches the XPaths referenced by
an
> XSL stylesheet with the path in an XML file.
>
> Even something that would generate the list of XPaths referenced by an XSL
> stylesheet will suffice (then it would be quite easy to parse an XML file,
> generate paths for each node and match them with the paths in a
stylesheet).
>
> Does anybody know if such a tool for XSL exists ? Or has any suggestion of
> how to write it or knows of any XSLT processor with an API that would
allow
> me to do that ?

G. Ken Holman described a similar tool in his presentation "Synthesizing
stylesheets using "Literate XSLT"" at this year's Extreme Markup conference:

http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme03/html/2003/Holman01/EML2003Holman01-toc.html

and

http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme03/author-pkg/2003/Holman01/EML2003Holman01.zip



Dimitre Novatchev.
FXSL developer

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