Is there a good tool for XSL previews?

+1 A:

I am currently using Visual Studio, open your xml file within visual studio, from XML menu click show xslt output.

Bashar Kokash 2009-02-04 09:46:24

@Bashar any specific version? all i can find is vs2003 here. thanks.

melaos 2009-02-04 09:48:31

No, this is in Visual Studio 2005 and above

Bashar Kokash 2009-02-04 09:59:36

@melaos: VS2008 Express is free: http://www.microsoft.com/express/.

John Saunders 2009-06-23 22:24:41

+2 A:

I found Stylus Studio to be an invaluable tool for all my XML needs. I never ran it rough Wine though.

Martijn Laarman 2009-02-04 09:46:37

wow, seems like a little overkill but i'm going to check it out. thanks :)

melaos 2009-02-04 09:50:02

+1 A:

I use cooktop which is free.

Bhushan 2009-02-04 09:56:27

me too (though it is buggy and unsupported)

annakata 2009-02-04 14:08:59

A:

Try Microsoft XML Notepad

Matajon 2009-02-04 10:11:22

+5 A:

XSLT IDEs (Interactive Development Environments):

XSelerator (the one I've been using for 6-7 years). Free, has a Debugger for MSXML, has intellisense for both XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0. In addition has some dynamic intellisense. The debugger has breakpoints, data breakpoints,visualizes temporary trees, variables, test conditions, current output, ..., etc.
VS2008 -- a good XML Editor + XSLT Debugger. Good static intellisence. Match patterns are statically checked. Breakpoints, data breakpoints, visualization of variables and the current output.
oXygen
XML-SPY (Altova)
Stylus Studio

XPath tools:

The XPath Visualizer -- A popular tool for learning XPath by playing with XPath expressions. Free and open source. Allows any XPath expression to be evaluated against a given XML document and displayes the results hi-lighted in the xml document (if they are node(s)) or in a separate box (if the results are atomic values). Allows xsl:variable-s to be defined and then used in XPath expressions. Allows xsl:key-s to be defined and then referenced by key() functions within XPath expressions.

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-02-04 14:08:09

wow, sounds awesome and definitely can't beat the price. thanks :)

melaos 2009-02-04 14:33:45

@Dimitre Btw i can't seem to find anything from your XPath Visualizer link. Can you check? thanks.

melaos 2009-02-05 03:21:56

The topxml.com site was almost fatally broken and has been in this state for long. XPV for IE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/511942/best-xpath-expression-evaluator-eclipse/512352#512352XPV for Mozilla: http://www.topxml.com/code/cod-422_9827_xpath-visualizer-for-the-mozilla-browser.aspx

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-02-05 06:49:06

Does XSelerator works on Vista? It think work here :(

Daniel Silveira 2009-05-09 02:01:19

@Daniel-Silveira Yes, it works OK, must be started as administrator.

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-05-09 14:28:16

Xselerator does not have an installer. When I run it, I get the error: "CoCreate failure on IAltovaAPplication. Error: Class not registered." It looks like the application still works, but I'm not very confident in it.

Alek Davis 2009-06-23 23:02:23

Tried to download XPath Visualizer and got a scary safe browsing report from Google. Check it out: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.topxml.com/code/cod-422_10119_xpath-visualizer-14.aspx

Alek Davis 2009-06-23 23:06:01

@alek-davis The CoCreate" error is because XSelerator expects AltovaXML to be installed. From my experience this doesn't afect the work of the product.

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-06-24 01:40:35

@alek-davis The topxml.com site may have its own problems, but the download of the XPathVisualizer was OK the last time I tried it. I don't know what exactly the Google's safebrowsing report finds as problematic.

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-06-24 01:44:44

@Dimitre: Per Google: "Of the 867 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 193 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. Malicious software includes 1085 trojan(s), 104 scripting exploit(s), 8 worm(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 8 new process(es) on the target machine. Malicious software is hosted on 18 domain(s), including ca9x.com/, kaishi2009.com/, datongpu.com/. 2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including ca9x.com/, 51of.net/."

Alek Davis 2009-06-24 05:11:02

@alek-davis That's very sad... I will have to put all my tools and snippets to some other site then: if and when I have free time.Thank you for letting me know.

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-06-24 16:36:14

A:

A couple of alternatives that haven't been mentioned, yet:

XML Copy Editor - Okay, but requires an intermediate step to generate HTML and then open HTML in an external browser.
WMHelp XMLPad - Many minor bugs and annoyances, but otherwise very useful: can review and debug transformations within the IDE.

I wrote a post describing these and a couple of other tools, in case someone is interested: How to test XSL transformations.

Alek Davis 2009-06-23 22:22:35

A:

I'm using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition...under my XML menu all I see is "Schemas..." when I have an XSL file open. Did I miss installing a component for the other options?

SLeepdepD 2009-07-23 18:31:57

A:

To add another one:

You can use XML ValidatorBuddy directly from the Windows File Explorer to run and test your XSL transformations also: http://www.xml-tools.com/ValidatorBuddy.htm

XML ValidatorBuddy is an inexpensive XML workflow tool.

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