Zvon XSLTracer

Targets

The following set of examples should explain the processing of an XML document by an XSLT stylesheet. Start here (your browser must support frames and JavaScript, enable it, please). Tested in Mozilla (Netscape 6), IE 5.x and Opera 7.5.2.

Updates (14.1.2002)

Stylesheets changed to work with Saxon 6.5.

Added features (24.11.2000)

Now enables the view of processing of multiple XML sources (the use of document() function)
The output file (must be well-formed XML!) can be displayed too
- the resulting tree fragment corresponding to the XSLT instruction is dynamically highlighted in the output document

Features

Traces the evaluated XSLT instructions there and back.
Simultaneously shows the XML node being currently processed.
During tracing it also displays:
- name of the currently processed XML element or attribute
- full XPath of the currently processed XML element or attribute
- values of parameters and variables
- all nodes of node-set which is matched by select expression in xsl:apply-templates or xsl:for-each
- value returned by xsl:value-of

Acknowledgment

I would like to thank Jiri Znamenacek (pirat@anime.cz) for his help with JavaScript code.

Related keywords: transformations, XSLT, XML

This material has been developed for Zvon, where you can find other not only XML related materials (both basic and advanced tutorials and references about XSLT, XML, DTD, Mozilla, CSS, schemas, regular expressions, ...)

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