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Tennison has announced the availability of a beta version
of XSLTDoc, a tool for viewing information about
sets of XSLT documents:
XSLTDoc helps you browse a set of XSLT stylesheets. It
gives four views:
- a tree of the imported/included
stylesheets
- a summary of the top-level elements in the
selected stylesheet
- a view of the source of a selected top-level
element
- a description of the functionality of a selected
instruction or literal result element
The application, which is itself an XSLT implementation
(with some JavaScript thrown in) produces a highly readable, fully hyperlinked overview of the various
templates each stylesheet contains.
To use it, you'll need to have Internet Explorer version 5.0
or greater, along with the release version of the MSXML 3.0 parser installed in replace mode.
No documentation is provided, but XSLTDoc is simple to use:
after downloading and unzipping the distribution, just open the
included xslt-doc.xsl
file to start the
application.
XSLTDoc has a purpose similar to that of the recently
announced Xsldoc application. Unlike Xsldoc, however,
XSLTDoc is not currently intended to process or present
embedded comments.
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