Hello- It's more than likely not something you're looking for (single-platform, VERY closed), but i bring it up simply because of its excellent functionality. Microsoft VS7/VS.NET's IDE has a built-in XML highlighter and real-time XSLT visualizer/debugger. If you're just doing the rounds to see what GUIs and tools are out there (or putting together a feature list), it's definitely worth a look- It was very well implemented and works intuitively. Personally, I like it better than XMLSpy.
(No, i don't work for MS .... =]) There's also some little freeware app out there called XMLPad (i think), some people here use that for XML work. I can't comment as to its merits though, never having used it. Regards, -Charles Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Visual Xalan Debugger 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
