Re: [xsl] how to understand a complex stylesheet

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Norman wrote:

> PXSL and related languages are indeed interesting approaches to "clean" 
> up the source code of XSLT stylesheets. But the problem remains: you 
> take one look at it, and you still don't understand that much. You still 
> have to roam through the source code to get answers to: which template 
> calls which template; 

Which template gets matched/called will depend on the XML source, rather 
than the XSL.

-Rob



> are templates located in other files; etc. This 
> are questions which aren't answered immediately. Although I am aware 
> that probably no visualization or any other method can make a complex 
> stylesheets understandable at once, just making the code more readable 
> won't solve the problem. BUT it is one step to it, that is true indeed!