Chapter 6 Debugging Stylesheets


Stylus Studio provides several tools that allow you to follow XSLT processing and detect errors in your stylesheets. To use these tools, you must use the processors displayed in the Debug and back-mapping enabled section of the Processors page on the Scenario Properties dialog box. These processors include Stylus Studio's XSLT processor, Apache Xalan-J, MSXML .Net, and Saxon 6 and 8. If you use the MSXML XSLT processor or some other XSLT processor, you cannot use the Stylus Studio debugging and backmapping tools.

You can also use the Stylus Studio debugger to analyze Java files, or applications that include both stylesheets and Java files. In addition, you can use Stylus Studio to debug JavaScript and VBScript extension functions. See the Microsoft documentation for information about these extension functions.

This section discusses the following topics:

XQuery Functions - User Defined Functions in XQuery

Dr. Michael Kay's tutorial entitled: 'Defining your own Functions in XQuery' explains how to write powerful User Defined Functions in XQuery.

WSDL Editor

WSDL Editor featuring a graphical WSDL viewer, syntax help, Java Web Service code generation and more. Simplify Web Services development with Stylus Studio's Web Service Description Language (WSDL) Editor today!

XML Spell Checker

The Stylus Studio Spell Checker is integrated with our intuitive XML Text Editor. It highlights typographical errors as you type and lets you easily search, replace, and build custom dictionaries.

XML Differencing

Stylus Studio's integrated XML Differencing tool visually computes and analyzes any changes made to files or folders in a highly configurable, XML-aware fashion. Display text or tree views, with changes displayed in a merged view or side-by-side!

Stylus Most Wanted

 
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member