CodeX: An Approach for Debugging XSLT Transformations

  • Authors:
  • Eric Bae;James Bailey

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WISE '03 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

XML is now a dominant standard for storing and exchanging information. One very important activity is the transformation of XML documents into other formats, via the transformation language XSLT. XSLT provides a powerful way to perform document conversion and exchange, avoiding reliance on application speci.c solutions. However, XSLT is a complex language and the current level of support for debugging tools is poor. Many tools that do existare mainly an extension of conventional techniques for imperative programs and not well-suited to the task. In this paper, we present CodeX, a debugger for XSLT and proposethree debugging techniques which are particularly suited to the language We aim to offer XSLT users a tool which is beneficial in finding errors, as well as facilitating a better understanding of the XML transformation process.