Re: Viewing intermediate results

p:log should help

http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/#p.log

J

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also have a question that bears on debugging, but debugging the pipeline
> not the XProc as such.
>
> As you know, I have multiple passes in XSLT. Say, three:
>
> <p:pipeline xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"
>  version="1.0" name="triple-play">
>  <p:xslt>
>    <p:input port="stylesheet">
>      <p:document href="transform1.xsl"/>
>    </p:input>
>  </p:xslt>
>  <p:xslt>
>    <p:input port="stylesheet">
>      <p:document href="transform2.xsl"/>
>    </p:input>
>  </p:xslt>
>  <p:xslt>
>    <p:input port="stylesheet">
>      <p:document href="transform3.xsl"/>
>    </p:input>
>  </p:xslt>
> </p:pipeline>
>
> I am guessing if I made this into p:declare-step, I could have ports to show
> me the intermediate results after each transformation.
>
> But I don't always want to see them, only sometimes.
>
> Currently I have achieved this using three different XProc instances, each
> importing the previous in a cascade, so if I want to see intermediate
> results, I run the appropriate XProc. But this is suboptimal for several
> reasons.
>
> I have a couple of ideas for things to try, but maybe I'm better off just
> asking what the best methods are?
>
> In effect I'd like to implement a "production" and a "debugging" mode, with
> options to show me any or all the intermediate results in addition to or
> instead of the final result.
>
> Gratefully as always,
> Wendell
>
>
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