Re: [xsl] Is there something like a trace processing output for XSLT processing? At least with Saxon?

[Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 11 2009 10:41:35 +0000, bxstover@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I wonder wether there is something like a trace output for the XSLT
> processing.
>
> In other words: When applying a XSLT script onto a XML input file all
> matching templates and matched XML nodes and their transformation
> should be written to a log file.
>
> Is this somehow possible? At least with Saxon?

Yes.  Saxon comes with a stylesheet for getting timing information out
of the trace.

Jeni Tennison's XSpec [1] has a trace listener and a stylesheet for
generating a coverage report.  It seems the coverage report wasn't
working in the 0.1 release, but it does work in the version that you can
get from a Subversion checkout.  I now no longer know where or how I
found the coverage documentation, but see
http://www.menteithconsulting.com/wiki/TestingXSLT/XSpec#Coverage for
some sample output.

Regards,


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[1] http://code.google.com/p/xspec/