The XSLT Debugger perspective is used for detecting problems in an XSLT transformation process by executing the process step by step in a controlled environment and inspecting the information provided in different special views. The workspace is organized in:
Source document view - Displays and allows editing of data or document oriented XML files (documents).
Stylesheet document view - Displays and allows editing of XSL files(stylesheets).
Output document view - Displays the transformed output that results from the input of a selected document (XML) and selected stylesheet (XSL) to the transformer. The result of transformation is dynamically written as the transformation is processed. There are three types of views for the output: a text view (with XML syntax highlight), an XHTML view and one text view for each xsl:result-document element used in the stylesheet (if it is a XSLT 2.0 stylesheet).
Control toolbar - Contains all actions needed in order to configure and control the debug process.
Information views - Distributed in two panes that are used to display various types of information that can be used to understand the transformation process. For each information type there is a corresponding tab. While running a transformation, relevant events are displayed in the various information views. This enables the developer to obtain a clear view of the transformation progress.