There's no wish list that I know of. Some of your questions are very interesting, but I'm not sure I have the answers, but I'll make some comments:
1. Multi-platform and open source. 2. Plug into existing frameworks would be the best. Browser-based is an interesting idea, but I don't know how it could be done. 3. Probably, but they would be radically different. 4. Probably not, since there's really no programming logic involved, but who knows? 5. XMLSpy seems to be very popular. 6. There's some interesting stuff out there. Check out some of the stuff that ActiveState has done: http://www.activestate.com Dave Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] .net> cc: (bcc: David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM) Subject: Visual Xalan Debugger 03/15/2002 01:45 AM At 03:29 12/03/02, you wrote: >If you're interested in software tools, a cool project would be a visual >debugger for Xalan! > >Dave Not that I can promise anything at the moment Dave (though I'd like to be in a position to give something back), but is there an existing wish list of features for a visual Xalan debugger? For instance:- - Should it be multi-platform? - Is there already overwhelming support for a particular XML/Xalan-capable editor environment (eg emacs) or would a simple browser-based debugger (if that's practical?) be more flexible? - Does the Xalan-J project require one too? - What about Xerces for debugging invalid XML? - Are there already any XML editing environments preferred by/under development within the Apache XML Projects? - Do we know/like any existing open source XSLT debuggers? Any other ideas? May as well at least get an idea of what people would want, there is no harm in that right?! Regards Paul J
