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> For purposes of enhancing/checking the XSLTs I think there would be some merit in having an XSLT which could pull all templates into one > summarised output. XSLT is unwelding when you have template calls with parameters. Multiple includes make it time-consuming to locate a > template. > > I'm thinking the output would look something closer to procedural code like VB. Seems reasonable, I could almost use something like this. However, it would seem to me that what you want is a dependency graph, and as such, hierarchical XML might be a good fit, at least as an intermediate format? IE; <stylesheet name="gunk.xsl"> <import name="blah.xsl> <template match="fee" name="foo"> <parameter name="test" default="0"/> </template> </import> <template match="root"> <call name="foo"/> </template> </stylesheet> would alert you to the fact that the "root" template can end up invoking the "foo" template without passing it the "test" parameter (but there is a default defined for this case). Of course, this is only better than the original source in that it eliminates some of the noise and makes the import targets more obvious. However, it should be relatively easy to produce? The problem I see with a VB type pseudo code is that I don't see how you would map multiple match targets without getting into building (possibly large) switch statements all over the place; the output could be bigger than the input. After you get the reduced XML output then you could play with rendering it in SVG :-) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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