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XSLT Editors: Page 2 of 6

A good XSLT editor should support XPath queries and help you evaluate them. XPath analysis can speed up the construction of XSLT by letting you test XPath queries to see the resulting node. Such analysis removes the need to run the transformation in order to determine whether your XPath query is correct.

Tag Handling

No development environment would be complete without color syntax highlighting. Even the most rudimentary editor should provide customizable highlighting and support not only XSLT but XSL, XML and HTML.

XSLT editors' tag handling capabilities have grown considerably and are now almost on a par with a professional C/C++/Java environment. Features such as drop-down lists make writing XSLT a breeze. The "automatic but optional feature" lists attributes with mandatory values and can reduce mistakes and save you time.

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