| <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Variables View</title><link href="book.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><link href="../book.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><meta content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0" name="generator"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="XSL Tools User Documentation"><link rel="up" href="debugging_common.html" title="Common Debugging Operations"><link rel="prev" href="debugging_common.html" title="Common Debugging Operations"><link rel="next" href="debugging_processors.html" title="XSLT Processor Specific Support"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="XSLDebugVariables"></a>Variables View</h4></div></div></div><p> The variables view will show all the local and global | |
| variables and params that are currently in scope. There are two | |
| types of variables that can be views.</p><div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="../images/launching/nodesetVariable.png" align="middle"></div><div class="itemizedlist"><p class="title"><b>Variable Types</b></p><ul type="disc"><li><p> | |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>String</em></span> | |
| - These contain text values. This could be strings of text, | |
| numbers, or other characters. | |
| </p></li><li><p> | |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Nodesets</em></span> | |
| - Nodesets are represented in the variables view as expandable | |
| variables. They contain sequences of nodes. The type of nodes are | |
| represented by icons for elements, attributes, text, comments or | |
| processing instructions. | |
| </p></li></ul></div><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Can I change the value of variables?</h3><p> Currently the XSLT Debugger does not support changing the | |
| values or contents of a variable. All XSLT variables are read | |
| only.</p></div></div></body></html> |