One can debate the merits of such-and-such an approach to
transformations and the debate should be lively.
But verbiage such as "your bastard child of a language" has no utility
whatsoever and certainly no place in polite discourse.
I would suggest giving this guy's opinions no further attention.
cheers
-aljo
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
wrote:
His point is that XSLT makes it especially difficult to debug (bad)
programs written by others. How would one best solve the problem he
describes?
Yes, debugging stylesheets that have evolved over a period of time and
contain lots of overlays can be difficult. The price of making it easy for
stylesheets to evolve is that they can evolve badly.
I generally use the Saxon -T option to resolve such issues. The output can
be horribly large when the input file is large, unfortunately, but it
usually reveals fairly quickly which rules are being invoked for which
nodes. Perhaps a variant that only outputs the template rule matches would
be useful (it's a very simple tweak).
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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