Actually Doc it's probably not something you encounter but "Do you know how
to use an xslt debugger" is a not uncommon interview question.

I always answer no. Cuss or comp.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > I don't know the half of the capabilities of the tool, I am sure there
> are good reasons why it is the gold standard and in fact this observation
> is not about oxygen specifically. But what I am saying is that without
> debugging facilities these stylesheet monstrosities could never be created
> and (one would like to think) their creators may weel be be forced into
> better software engineering practices.
>
> On the contrary, I frequently work with stylesheet monstrosities created
> without any help from such tools.
>
> At least if you have the tools you have some hope of developing a
> sufficient understanding of the monstrosity to attempt a refactoring, and
> the tools will also help with the refactoring.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica