Creating an XSLT Scenario

An XSLT scenario is a group of settings that Stylus Studio uses to process the XSLT when you click the Preview Result button ( ). Examples of scenario settings include the XML document to which the XSLT will be applied, whether you want to perform any post-processing, and the values of any parameters you might have defined. You can create multiple scenarios that use the same XSLT, and choose different settings for each. This flexibility can aid the XSLT development process as it enables you to easily test different applications of the XSLT before you put it online.

Even if you do not explicitly create a scenario, Stylus Studio uses default scenario settings in order to preview the XSLT. For example, Stylus Studio uses the first source document you specify as the document to which the XSLT is applied. (If the first source document is an XSD or DTD, Stylus Studio prompts you to provide an XML document for the scenario when you preview the XSLT.)

This section covers the following topics:

Open XSLT Architecture

Learn how Stylus Studio's Open XSLT Architecture enables you to use any of the popular industry-standard XSLT processors (like Saxon, Xalan-J, MSXML, Microsoft .NET, and others) for all your XSLT development tasks.

Web Service Testing Tools

The Stylus Studio Web Service Tester allows you to easily locate, build references to, and test Web services for XML applications based on WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI standard Web service technologies.

XML Schema Library

The Stylus Studio XML Schema Library provides a detailed reference of many of the world's most commonly used XML vocabularies in an easy-to-read format.

XML Operations

Using XML Pipeline it's easy to visually specify a series of XML operations to apply on your XML data, including parsing, validating, converting and transforming, according to the needs of your business application.

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