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Debugging XSLT stylesheets and
XQuery documents
being executed in the current source context. However, this can become difficult on complex stylesheets or XQuery
documents that generates a large output.
Output to source mapping is a powerful feature that makes this output to source mapping persistent that is you can
click on the text from the Output document view and the editor will select the XML source context and the XSL/XQuery
element that generated the text.
Figure 12.15. Output to Source Mapping
1.
If you are in the Editor perspective switch to the XSLT or XQuery Debugger perspective with one of the actions
(here explained for XSLT):
•
Perspective → Debugger or the toolbar button
Debugger
• Document → XML Document → Debug scenario or the toolbar button Debug scenario . This action initializes
the Debugger perspective with the parameters of the transformation scenario. Any modification applied to the
scenario parameters (the transformer engine, the XSLT parameters, the transformer extensions, etc) will be
saved back in the scenario when exiting from the Debugger perspective.
2.
Select the source XML document in the XML source selector of the Control toolbar. In case of XQuery debugging
without an implicit source choose the NONE value.
3.
Select the XSL/XQuery document in the XSL/XQuery selector of the Control toolbar
4.
Select the XSLT/XQuery engine in the XSLT/XQuery engine selector of the Control toolbar
5.
Set XSLT/XQuery parameters from the button available on the Control toolbar
6.
Apply the stylesheet or XQuery transformation using the button
7.
Inspect the mapping by clicking a section of the output from the Text view tab or from the XHTML view tab of
the Output document view to have the XSL/XQuery element and the source context highlighted.
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Run to end available on the Control toolbar: