Steps in a Typical Debugging Process
Depending on your situation and needs, the debugging process might be more complex, but the following procedure is an example of a typical debugging process:
- Open the source XML document and the XSLT/XQuery document.
-
If you are in the Editor
perspective, switch to the
XSLT Debugger or XQuery Debugger
perspective with one of the
following actions:
- Select .
- Select the
Debug
scenario action on the toolbar.. This action initializes the
Debugger perspective with the
parameters of the transformation scenario. Any modification applied to the scenario
parameters (the transformer engine, XSLT parameters, transformer extensions, etc.) will
be saved back in the scenario when exiting from the Debugger
perspective.
- Select the source XML document in the XML source selector of the Control toolbar. In the case of XQuery debugging, if your XQuery document has no implicit source, set the source selector value to NONE.
- Select the XSLT/XQuery document in the XSL/XQuery selector of the Control toolbar.
- Set XSLT/XQuery parameters using the Configure parameters button on the Control toolbar.
- Set one or more breakpoints.
-
Step through the stylesheet using the following
buttons available on the Control toolbar:
Step
into
Step
over
Step
out
Run
Run to
cursor
Run to
end
Pause
Stop
-
Examine the data in the information views to find the bug in the transformation
process.
For more information about fixing bugs in the transformation, see: Identify the XSLT / XQuery Expression that Generated Particular Output.