Stack View

The Stack view shows the current execution stack of both source and XSLT/XQuery nodes. If the view is not displayed, it can be opened from the WindowShow View menu.

During transformation two stacks are managed: one of source nodes being processed and the other for XSLT/XQuery nodes being processed. Oxygen XML Developer plugin shows both node types into one common stack. The source (XML) nodes are preceded by a red color icon while XSLT/XQuery nodes are preceded by a green color icon. The advantage of this approach is that you can always see the source scope on which an XSLT/XQuery instruction is executed (the last red color node on the stack). The stack is oriented upside down.

Stack View

The contextual menu contains one action: Go to, which moves the selection in the editor panel to the line containing the XSLT element that is displayed on the selected line from the view.

Stack columns

Column Description
# Order number, represents the depth of the node (0 is the stack base).
XML/XSLT/XQuery Node Node from source or stylesheet document currently being processed. One particular stack node is the document root, noted as #document.
Attributes Attributes of the node (a list of id="value" pairs).
Resource Resource file where the node is located.

Important

Remarks:
  • Clicking a record from the stack highlights that node's location inside resource.
  • Using Saxon, the stylesheet elements are qualified with XSL proxy, while using Xalan you only see their names. (example: xsl:template using Saxon and template using Xalan).
  • Only the Saxon processor shows element attributes.
  • The Xalan processor shows also the built-in rules.

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