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Editing XSL
12/16/07
Editing XSL
I’ve never had good luck finding an open source XSL editor for Windows - until now. I finally tried searching on SourceForge, and found XTrans. It’s intuitive, and seems to work as well as (or better than) the underlying MSXML engine. It includes a handy XPath query tester, too.
The program assumes you know XSL; it will give you a list of tags with short descriptions, but that’s about it. Still, it’s a major timesaver.
I know there are several expensive commercial offerings, but I don’t write XSL often enough to justify that.
Personally, I don’t care for XSL. I find it confusing and difficult to debug. I could write a C# program to parse the XML and create the output in less time than it takes to develop a transformation. XPath, on the other hand, is a wonderful timesaver.
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