Best XSLT Editor &| Debugger [closed]

Answer 1

In addition to Visual Studio's natural abilities here (I think the debugger is particularly strong), there's also a profiler add-in: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/xsltprofiler.

Answer 2

In my shop we use, Altova Xml spy.

Answer 3

Liquid XML Studio is pretty good at real-time interpretation of your XPATH queries.

Cooktop also lets me run my XPATH queries and shows me the XML and HTML generated by running the XSLT against a given XML.

Also, a colleague tells me that newer versions of Adobe Dreamweaver allows you to associate an XML file with an XSLT file and run the transformation.

Whenever possible i use Subversion for change-tracking.

And for navigation, i most often use VIM (or VIEmu) and sometimes a custom Visual Studio extension that builds an index of the current document's xsl:template and xsl:variable nodes to provide one-click navigation to the root entries.

Answer 4

I've had good results using Oxygen for XSLT debugging, XPath building, and general XML stuff.

Answer 5

I used to use a tool called Xselerator from Marrowsoft. You can find trial versions floating around the internet but they seem to have gone out of business so you can't buy it anymore. It was a great tool.

Answer 6

I've actually been doing some of this myself recently, and I find that if you're a .NET developer, Visual Studio actually has pretty fair support built right in for xslt files.