Chapter 6 Debugging Stylesheets


Stylus Studio provides several tools that allow you to follow XSLT processing and detect errors in your stylesheets. To use these tools, you must use the processors displayed in the Debug and back-mapping enabled section of the Processors page on the Scenario Properties dialog box. These processors include Stylus Studio's XSLT processor, Apache Xalan-J, MSXML .Net, and Saxon 6 and 8. If you use the MSXML XSLT processor or some other XSLT processor, you cannot use the Stylus Studio debugging and backmapping tools.

You can also use the Stylus Studio debugger to analyze Java files, or applications that include both stylesheets and Java files. In addition, you can use Stylus Studio to debug JavaScript and VBScript extension functions. See the Microsoft documentation for information about these extension functions.

This section discusses the following topics:

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Java XML Parser

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Using OASIS XML Catalogs in Stylus Studio

Learn about Stylus Studio's XML catalog support and how to work with XML catalogs in your Stylus Studio XML projects.

Introduction to Convert to XML

Convert to XML is Stylus Studio's all-purpose utility for getting legacy data integration of all sorts into a custom XML format. This video provides an overview of the tool and walks you through a sample CSV to XML data transformation project.

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