2022 to 2023 XSLT Feature Highlights

Language

• XSLT 4.0 (proposed) support updated to align with Saxon 12
• Special support for parse-html() function

Editing

• Locking source XML file for auto-completion

• Improved auto-completion for source XML elements/attributes

• Auto-completion

  • triggering is now more targeted
  • support for XML comments, CData-sections and processing-instructions
  • xsl:try and xsl:choose snippets
  • XSLT 4.0 switch snippet

• Improved syntax highlighting

  • Map lookup names
  • Map keys
  • Wild-card operator for name-tests: @*:class

Refactoring

• Extract function
• Extract template
• Extract variable
• Rename symbol

Debugging

• Support for ext:print() function inside <xsl:message> instructions

Navigation

• Selection of any part of an attribute triggers symbol-selection
• Find all references
• Goto defintion
• Goto XPath

Linter

• Reports 'missing context' problems inside XSLT functions
• XSLT instruction attribute values now validated

Running XSLT

• New SaxonJS task properties
• New 'QuickPick file' commands available for variable substitution in XSLT tasks
  • Source XML
  • XSLT
  • Result File