Re: Debugging xproc files

Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:
> How to you debug your xproc .. files?

With some difficulty. Like Vojtech, I sometimes bring out the java
debugger, but of course that's not an option for most folks :-)

The p:log step is sometimes useful. Giving steps names is often useful.
The cx:message and cx:tee steps are often useful.

The cx:message step is an XML Calabash extension,

<p:declare-step type="cx:message">
  <p:input port="source"/>
  <p:output port="result"/>
  <p:option name="message" required="true"/>
</p:declare-step>

but cx:tee is an ordinary pipeline.

<p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"
		xmlns:cx="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions"
                type="cx:tee" name="main" version="1.0">
  <p:input port="source" sequence="true" primary="true"/>
  <p:output port="result" sequence="true" primary="true"/>
  <p:option name="href" required="true"/>
  <p:option name="debug" select="0"/>

  <p:choose>
    <p:when test="$debug != 0">
      <p:store name="saving-debugging-output" method="xml" indent="true">
        <p:with-option name="href" select="$href"/>
      </p:store>
    </p:when>
    <p:otherwise>
      <p:sink name="discarding-debugging-output"/>
    </p:otherwise>
  </p:choose>

  <p:identity name="identity">
    <p:input port="source">
      <p:pipe step="main" port="source"/>
    </p:input>
  </p:identity>
</p:declare-step>

Working on improving the error messages in XML Calabash is about
medium high on my list.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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