[wtp-incubator-dev] NodeSets in XSL Tools Debugger

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've implemented some very basic support for allowing XSL Variables that 
are NodeSets to be expandable from within the debugger.   It's at the 
very early stages, and still needs some more work, but it's showing some 
promise.

One of the issues I'm running into, and hopefully Doug has some ideas 
besides what I've done so far, to get this working better.   Right now 
the XSL Tools Debugger is always expecting a string coming back with 
some additional information in a key value pair, in the form:
variable&value

This works well for strings, integers, etc, but doesn't work well for 
Nodesets which contain multiple values and nesting.  To get around this 
limitation, I've serialized the NodeSets into XML and transmit that as 
the value.  Then when creating the XSLVariable and the XSLValue, I 
create a specialized NodeListVariable and a corresponding XSLValue for 
the debugger to display.   It seems to work alright, but I have some 
more work to do.

Doug have you had any thoughts on how you wanted to implement this, or 
is serializing this and then building the correct information the best 
way to proceed with this?

Dave