Re: View generated xml code on the fly

[Ovidiu P. <ov...@xe...>]

Hi Hartmut,

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:30:59 +0200, Hartmut Obendorf <obe...@in...> wrote:

> Dear Ovidiu Predescu,
> 
> thanks for your xslt-mode! great work!

Thanks!

> but, of course, that's not all behind me writing this -
> 
> I am planning to do some xslt debugging with students and am missing
> an important feature; so now I'd like to know if it isn't there or if
> I just didn't find it:
> 
> Is it possible to view the generated xml code while debugging? IMHO
> that would be very helpful if you try to explain how stylesheets
> work..

This is a very requested feature ;-)

Unfortunately, you cannot do that with the current code. The XSLT
processors don't generate output until the very last moment. We'd need
to get more insights into the internals of Saxon to be able to do
that.

Regards,
-- 
Ovidiu Predescu <ov...@cu...>
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