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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®

Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML

Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML

Chapter 4: Converting EDI to XML

Chapter 5: Working with XSLT

Chapter 6: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper

Chapter 7: Debugging Stylesheets

Chapter 8: Defining XML Schemas

Chapter 9: Defining Document Type Definitions

Chapter 10: Writing XPath Expressions

Chapter 11: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio

Chapter 12: Composing Web Service Calls

Chapter 13: Working with WSDL Documents

Chapter 14: Building XML Pipelines

Chapter 15: Publishing XML Data

Chapter 16: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems

Chapter 17: Extending Stylus Studio

Chapter 18: The Stylus Studio Java API

Chapter 19: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Steps for Debugging Stylesheets

Stylus Studio provides tools for debugging transformations.

To debug a stylesheet:

1. Open a stylesheet.

2. Set up a scenario or select the scenario you want to use. See Applying Stylesheets.

3. Set one or more breakpoints. See Using Breakpoints.

4. Apply the stylesheet by pressing F5, not clicking Preview Result. If you click Preview Result, Stylus Studio applies the stylesheet without invoking the debugger.

5. Examine the information in the debugging tools and in the Preview window.

6. Run and examine the information XSLT Profiler report.

7. Iteratively step through the stylesheet or program and examine the information in the debugging tools.

You can include msxml:script elements in XML documents in Stylus Studio. The msxml prefix must indicate the Microsoft urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt namespace.

The following sections provide the details for performing each of these steps.

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