[oXygen-user] Debugger stops showing parameters for a while?

[Lars Huttar]

OK. Thanks for looking into this.

Lars


On 9/7/2012 3:20 AM, George Cristian Bina wrote:
> Hi Lars,
>
> Sorry, we looked again into this and it seems an issue with the local
> variables/parameter detection when the context is inside an XPath
> expression. What happens is that we get the current XSLT element as a
> reference to collect the in-scope variables/parameters and the
> xsl:variable is not yet the current element, because it is about to be
> evaluated and thus we get the xsl:template instead thus failing to
> detect the local variables and parameters. We are working to find a
> solution to this problem.
>
> Best Regards,
> George
> -- 
> George Cristian Bina
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>
> On 9/6/12 4:30 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
>> Thank you for this explanation ... it helps to have an idea of why this
>> is happening, and to have a workaround.
>> Two follow-up questions:
>>
>> 1) Why are these parameters not visible inside XPath expressions, when
>> those expressions are in the scope where those parameters/variables
>> should be visible? If the parameters were referenced within the XPath
>> expressions, that would be a valid reference, so it's hard to understand
>> why the evaluation context there doesn't show certain variables.
>>
>> 2) It seems unfortunate that turning on the trace of XPath expressions
>> actually removes the ability to see the values of certain variables,
>> relative to having the XPath trace turned off. Certainly there are times
>> when stepping through XPath expressions will be very helpful (or even
>> crucial), in which case one has to sacrifice visibility of variables. If
>> these variables cannot be displayed while stepping through an XPath
>> expression, could additional stepping points be inserted, so that the
>> value of a variable can be inspected as soon as it is computed, before
>> entering the XPath evaluation context?
>>
>> E.g. in the example I gave, I'm able to inspect the value of the first
>> passed-in parameter, $mixedItemTypes, before the next <xsl:param> is
>> evaluated. It would be very helpful (and consistent) to be able to do
>> the same with the $tableScopeType parameter before entering the XPath
>> expression in <xsl:variable name="file" select="."/>. Maybe this can be
>> accomplished by inserting another stepping point after        <xsl:param
>> name="tableScopeType" select="''" as="xs:string"/> ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks as always for a great tool. My team and I have been annual
>> subscribers for several years, and we continue to be convinced that
>> we're getting a great value from oXygen.
>>
>> Lars