# The &xsldbg; Handbook

Keith
Isdale

    k_isdale@tpg.com.au

2002
2003
Keith Isdale
&FDLNotice;
2004-09-26
1.01.00

&xsldbg; is a tool intended to help understand stylesheets. What makes it different to other stylesheet debuggers is the ability to search for items of interest and trace stylesheet execution.

KDE
kdeutils
xsldbg
xsl
XML

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## Installation

### How to obtain &xsldbg;

See the kxsldbg component of the kdewebdev module in &kde; SVN.

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### Requirements

In order to successfully use &xsldbg;, you need &kde; libxslt, libexslt and libxml installed which are available on a typical &kde; installation.

### Compilation and Installation

&xsldbg; is usually compiled as part of the kxsldbg component in the kdewebdev module

### Configuration

&xsldbg; is configured using arguments passed via the command line and its setoption command

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