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Thanks a lot, Ken, I will try this. Cheers, Dimitre On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 2009-12-16 09:11 -0800, Dimitre Novatchev wrote: >> >> To shift to a what I consider a very important, related topic: >> >> It has been many years since I have adopted writing complete programs >> as one XPath expressions, something like this: >> ... >> Now this has been facilitated even further by providing "let >> expressions" in XPath 2.1. I will never have to need to define a >> separate xsl:variable whose value is a sequence -- this was not >> possible without having let expressions in XPath. >> >> However, I cannot find adequate debugger support for this style of >> programming. > > Have you considered simply wrapping sub-expressions with trace() since > trace() simply returns the first argument as its return value? > >> The whole program above is treated as one single statement > > I tell my students this is a safe way to debug their complex expressions > without disturbing the logic of the XPath expression (except for injecting > the syntax) > > I hope this helps. > > . . . . . . . . . . . Ken > > -- > UBL and Code List training: B B B Copenhagen, Denmark 2010-02-08/10 > XSLT/XQuery/XPath training after http://XMLPrague.cz 2010-03-15/19 > XSLT/XQuery/XPath training: B San Carlos, California 2010-04-26/30 > Vote for your XML training: B http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/i/ > Crane Softwrights Ltd. B B B B B http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ > Training tools: Comprehensive interactive XSLT/XPath 1.0/2.0 video > Video lesson: B B http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrNjJCh7Ppg&fmt=18 > Video overview: B http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTiodiij6gE&fmt=18 > G. Ken Holman B B B B B B B B mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Male Cancer Awareness Nov'07 B http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc > Legal business disclaimers: B http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal > > -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play ------------------------------------- I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath.
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