Steps in a Typical Debugging Process
To debug a stylesheet or XQuery document, follow this procedure:
- Open the source XML document and the XSLT/XQuery document.
- If you are in the Editor perspective, switch to the XSLT Debugger or XQuery Debugger
perspective with one of the following actions:
- Select or the
XSLT
Debugger/
XQuery
Debugger button in the top-right corner of the
interface.
- Select or use the
Debug
scenario action on the toolbar.. This action initializes the
Debugger perspective with the parameters of the transformation scenario. Any
modification applied to the scenario parameters (the transformer engine, XSLT
parameters, transformer extensions, etc.) will be saved back in the scenario when
exiting from the Debugger perspective.
- Select or the
- Select the source XML document in the XML source selector of the Control toolbar. In the case of XQuery debugging, if your XQuery document has no implicit source, set the source selector value to NONE.
- Select the XSLT/XQuery document in the XSLT/XQuery selector of the Control toolbar.
- Set XSLT/XQuery parameters from the button available on the Control toolbar.
- Set one or more breakpoints.
- Step through the stylesheet using the following buttons available on the Control toolbar:
- Examine the information in the information views to find the bug in the transformation
process.You may find the procedure for determining the XSLT template/XQuery element that generated an output section useful for fixing bugs in the transformation.
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into
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over
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out
Run
Run to
cursor
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end
Pause
Stop