Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Editing XSLT Style Sheets

XSLT files are XML files, so the process of editing an XSLT style sheet is the same as that described for editing an XML document. There are, however, a few additional features specific to XSLT documents. For one, keywords are recognized and shaded appropriately in the editor just as with a code document. Second, the XML editor automatically processes the current state of the document against the standard schema for XSLT style sheets and shows any validation errors to you directly. And finally, Visual Studio is fully aware of any script embedded in an XSLT document. You can set breakpoints within a script block, and there is full debug support for script enabling you to step through code, see the current state of variables, ...