When I was writing a lot of XSL documents I relied heavily upon MarrowSoft's Xselerator: http://www.marrowsoft.co.uk/ Xselerator doesn't appear to be doing any further updates, nor is it even being sold anymore (I think?). Nor have I seen Marrow on the forums lately (not that I've looked that hard!). One of the most-oft used features of Xselerator (for me) was the ability to transform the XSL against a side-by-side XML file right from within the editor. Not to mention that was simply a great IDE for XSL. I'm starting to write XSL again and haven't really found anything that seems comparable to Xselerator. Any suggestions? Cheers! ::k::
Kindler Chase wrote: > I'm starting to write XSL again and haven't really found anything that > seems comparable to Xselerator. Any suggestions? Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 allows you to run and debug stylesheets with XslCompiledTransform. I don't know how it compares to XSelerator. -- Martin Honnen --- MVP XML http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
"Martin Honnen" wrote in message news:eEu5YaE2IHA.5512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Kindler Chase wrote: > >> I'm starting to write XSL again and haven't really found anything that >> seems comparable to Xselerator. Any suggestions? > > Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 allows you to run and debug stylesheets with > XslCompiledTransform. > I don't know how it compares to XSelerator. > > -- > > Martin Honnen --- MVP XML > http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/ You'd have to check but I don't think the XSLT debugging is available in the Express versions though. Other possibilities are Altova's XmlSpy and oXygen. -- Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML) http://joe.fawcett.name
Joe Fawcett wrote: > "Martin Honnen" wrote in message > news:eEu5YaE2IHA.5512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Kindler Chase wrote: >> >>> I'm starting to write XSL again and haven't really found anything >>> that seems comparable to Xselerator. Any suggestions? >> >> Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 allows you to run and debug stylesheets >> with XslCompiledTransform. >> I don't know how it compares to XSelerator. >> > You'd have to check but I don't think the XSLT debugging is available in > the Express versions though. > Other possibilities are Altova's XmlSpy and oXygen. > I didn't realize VS had an XSLT editing environment (add that to the list!). I'll take a look at what it can do. Joe/Martin - are you using the built-in VS XSL editor? or a 3rd party editor? I've checked XmlSpy in the past and found it to be too much for my needs. oXygen may be an option, but the price tag is a bit on the high side. Anyone have any experience with EditX: http://www.editix.com/features/xslt_editor.html Thanks! ::k::
"Kindler Chase" <support@DeLeTeMe-ncubed-dot-com> wrote in message news:#VvBdbI2IHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Joe Fawcett wrote: >> "Martin Honnen" wrote in message >> news:eEu5YaE2IHA.5512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> Kindler Chase wrote: >>> >>>> I'm starting to write XSL again and haven't really found anything that >>>> seems comparable to Xselerator. Any suggestions? >>> >>> Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 allows you to run and debug stylesheets with >>> XslCompiledTransform. >>> I don't know how it compares to XSelerator. >>> >> You'd have to check but I don't think the XSLT debugging is available in >> the Express versions though. >> Other possibilities are Altova's XmlSpy and oXygen. >> > > I didn't realize VS had an XSLT editing environment (add that to the > list!). I'll take a look at what it can do. > > Joe/Martin - are you using the built-in VS XSL editor? or a 3rd party > editor? > > I've checked XmlSpy in the past and found it to be too much for my needs. > oXygen may be an option, but the price tag is a bit on the high side. > > Anyone have any experience with EditX: > http://www.editix.com/features/xslt_editor.html > > Thanks! > ::k:: > I tend to use VS or XmlSpy if I'm doing XSLT 2.0. I have yet to try the XmlSpy VS plug-in. I'm happy working with text representation rather than "WYSIWYG" editors so all I need is the ability to run a transform and set debug points. -- Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML) http://joe.fawcett.name
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