Yes you're right Dave.
Komodo from ActiveState, a Win/Linux XSLT IDE at v1.1 (unsupported) is free (v1.2 for non-commercial use is $29.50 and an order of magnitude more for commercial use). Not open source I know but certainly worth a look. There seem to be loads of other commercial XML tools, but we are interested in open source right ;)
In the best open source tradition I don't wish to leap in and produce another open source XSLT debugger if one has already been started elsewhere that can be tweaked for Xalan-C...
There is XSLT-process http://xslt-process.sourceforge.net/ a minor mode for xemacs/emacs which "transforms it into a powerful editor with XSLT processing and debugging capabilities." Not everyone will be happy to use emacs of course. They say debugging support for Xalan-J is coming. They don't mention Xalan-C, but for those who are interested (and are happy to utilise emacs/xemacs - there is a windows port you know!) perhaps we should find out what these XSLT-process guys are up to and maybe "tag along". It looks comprehensive. Being experienced in neither the innards of emacs nor Xalan-C (I'm still just a user), I don't know what work would be required to get it to work with Xalan-C.
Then there is xsldbg http://xsldbg.sourceforge.net/ which makes use of the GNOME libxslt processor. Looks interesting.
Also Tbug http://tbug.sourceforge.net/ - though the project doesn't appear to have been active since Oct 2000.
Anyone know of any other open source offerings? I would have thought most people using Xalan-C to process their own XSL stylesheets would be interested in a visual XSL debugging environment. Even better, are any of you out there already working on, or thinking of working on, such an open source project!?
Regards Paul
At 03:48 20/03/02, you wrote:
6. There's some interesting stuff out there. Check out some of the stuff that ActiveState has done:
http://www.activestate.com
Dave
