The XSLT Debugger perspective is used for detecting problems in an XSLT transformation
process by executing the process step by step in a controlled environment and inspecting the
information provided in different special views. The workspace is organized as an editing area
supported by special helper views. The editing area contains editor panels and can be split horizontally or vertically in two stacks of
editors: XML editor panels and XSLT editor panels.
- Source document view - Displays and allows editing of data or document oriented XML
files (documents).
- Stylesheet document view - Displays and allows editing of XSL files(stylesheets).
- Output document view - Displays the transformed output that
results from the input of a selected document (XML) and selected stylesheet (XSL) to the
transformer. The result of transformation is dynamically written as the transformation is
processed. There are three types of views for the output: a text view (with XML syntax
highlight), an XHTML view and one text view for each xsl:result-document element used in
the stylesheet (if it is a XSLT 2.0 stylesheet).
- Control toolbar - Contains all actions needed in order to configure and control the
debug process.
- Information views - Distributed in two panes that are used to display various types of
information that can be used to understand the transformation process. For each
information type there is a corresponding tab. While running a transformation, relevant
events are displayed in the various information views. This allows the developer to obtain
a clear view of the transformation progress.