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Re: Re: stylesheet debug/dump

2003-12-17 14:43:53

Yes, that is similar to what I need, but the tools that Holman provides 
work on his "literate" stylesheets, not on regular stylesheets.

I guess I could write an XSL transformation that covers the main cases 
(XPath in <xsl:template> <xsl:* select>, etc). But trying to cover all the 
cases (variables, XPath expressions embedded in output element using 
{expr} syntax, etc.) may be too much. And still, without "executing" the 
original stylesheet it's even more difficult, if not impossible, to 
combine paths, for example in nested templates.

Anyway, thanks for the document.

-- Raffaele


On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:


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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