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One can debate the merits of such-and-such an approach to transformations and the debate should be lively. But verbiage such as "your bastard child of a language" has no utility whatsoever and certainly no place in polite discourse. I would suggest giving this guy's opinions no further attention. cheers -aljo On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>His point is that XSLT makes it especially difficult to debug (bad) >> programs written by others. How would one best solve the problem he >> describes? > > Yes, debugging stylesheets that have evolved over a period of time and > contain lots of overlays can be difficult. The price of making it easy for > stylesheets to evolve is that they can evolve badly. > > I generally use the Saxon -T option to resolve such issues. The output can > be horribly large when the input file is large, unfortunately, but it > usually reveals fairly quickly which rules are being invoked for which > nodes. Perhaps a variant that only outputs the template rule matches would > be useful (it's a very simple tweak). > > Michael Kay > Saxonica
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