| <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>XSLT Debugging</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="launching.html" title="XSL Launching and Debugging"><link rel="prev" href="launching.html" title="XSL Launching and Debugging"><link rel="next" href="debugging_common.html" title="Common Debugging Operations"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="XSLDebug"></a>XSLT Debugging</h2></div></div></div><p> XSL Tools provides a framework for XSLT processors to provide | |
| debugging support. The support provided is highly dependent on the | |
| processors. XSL Tools comes with built in support for the Xalan 2.7.1 | |
| processor. Debugging is only available for those processors that | |
| support the feature and plug into the extension point. The XSL Tools | |
| debugger leverages the existing eclipse platform Debug View</p><div class="figure"><a name="fig_XSLDebug"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 15. XSLT Debugging</b></p><div class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="../images/launching/XSLDebugging.png" align="middle" alt="XSLT Debugging"></div></div></div><br class="figure-break"><p> | |
| How the debugger acts will depend on the processor being used. Not | |
| all XSLT processors pass the same type of information to the | |
| debugger. These differences will be noted in the | |
| <a class="xref" href="debugging_processors.html" title="XSLT Processor Specific Support">the section called “XSLT Processor Specific Support”</a> | |
| section. | |
| </p><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="DebugGettingStarted"></a>Starting a Debug Session</h3></div></div></div><p> Debugging is started the same way as launching an XSL | |
| Tranformation is done. Except that the debug configuration is used | |
| instead of the normal launch configuration. If a debugging session | |
| is started on a processor that does not support debugging, a dialog | |
| will ask if you want to switch to one of the supported debuggers. | |
| </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Default JRE</h3><p> The default JRE does not have built in support for debugging, | |
| even though it is based on Apache Xalan. It is recommended to use | |
| Xalan or another processor provided by an adopter to do your | |
| transformations. The default processor is known to have some issues | |
| that Xalan and other processors do not have.</p></div></div></div></body></html> |