Release Notes

Release 1.5.15

5 November 2023

Bug fixes

XPath editor auto-complete: typing @ to trigger suggestion-list for attributes caused @@ to be entered on accepting the suggestion

Improvements

Supplemented the auto-complete list for fn:serialize() with the 'adaptive' option for the function
Saxon SQL extension functions now have auto-completion and linter support

Release 1.5.14

3 August 2023

Improvements

xsl:message auto-complete: serialize($var, map{'method':'adaptive'}) added to suggestion list

Release 1.5.13

11 June 2023

Bug fixes

Issue #124 Lexer: fix specific minor cases where problems were not reported

Release 1.5.12

5 June 2023

Improvements

xsl:message debugging
- ext:print() function adds space separator for a sequence of text-nodes
- ext:formatValue() function calculates width specially if ellipsis is required

Bug fixes

xsl:import/xsl:include href starting with file:/ as in file:/path/to/file was not resolved to a correct file path - now fixed

Release 1.5.11

21 March 2023

Bug fixes

Linter: spurious 'missing {' error reported for $a as function(*)

Release 1.5.10

Routine Maintenance

Updated NPM dependencies

11 March 2023

Improvements

xpath-result-serializer.xsl library
- the ext:print() function now always shows the serialized element start-tag if the element path starts with root()

Bug fixes

Linter:
- spurious 'missing context' problem reported for node-name test following map lookup operator e.g. `$map?x[@class]

Release 1.5.9

5 March 2023

Improvements

SaxonJS Tasks:
- Added relocate property corresponding to SaxonJS command-line arg -relocate:[on|off]
- Added timing property corresponding to SaxonJS command-line arg -t
Linter:
- Added basic syntax checking for anonymous function: function($a) {$a + 1}

Bug fixes

Linter - fixed spurious 'missing context' errors:
- for array constructor that is given context like: $nodes![@class]
- for alternative array constructor that is given context like: $nodes!array{@class}
- for map constructor that is given context like: $nodes!map {'x': @class}

Release 1.5.8

24 February 2023

Improvements

Support unprefixedElementNames property for SaxonJS Tasks

Bug fixes

Issue #120 Problem was reported for empty name attribute of xsl:namespace instruction - now fixed.

Release 1.5.7

23 February 2023

Improvements

Linter enhanced to report problem with trailing / char. E.g. (/books/)

Bug fixes

Linter did not report 'missing context' problems inside every, for and some range-variable expressions - now fixed
Related to the above: The 'extract xsl:function' full-refactor code action did not fix context problems inside range-variable expressions
Auto-completion was triggered after accepting from the completion-suggestions if completion-item was a type like xs:string

Release 1.5.6

16 February 2023

Improvements

Auto-completion:
- New 'XML Context' status bar item shows XML context file used for XPath auto-completion
- XML context file is changed (from most recently used) by clicking on the status bar 'context' item
- When setting context file, recently opened XML files are listed as well as previously used context files

Bug fixes

Auto-completion:
- No suggestions if XPath location included element-name test '*:name' - now fixed
- Variable names were in suggestion-list when types were expected - now fixed
- Completion-list triggering did not occur following named operators like 'and'
- Auto-completion list empty for XPath starting with $param/ when referencing an xsl:param with no select attribute
- Auto-completion for XPath starting with $variable sometimes only listed the root element

Release 1.5.5

13 February 2023

Improvements

Auto-completion for XPath functions:
- Increase cases where function completion suggestions are triggered
- On accepting suggestion, don't overwrite the following token when it immediately follows the cursor position
- Improve suggestion trigger for TVTs and AVTs
- General improvements in consistency when triggering suggestion list
- Include variable completion suggestions always - instead of just on the $ char trigger

Release 1.5.4

7 February 2023

Improvements

XPath Result Serializer:
- Supports color for SaxonJS also
- QuickFix for ext:print() now includes 'xpath-result-serializer-color.xsl' that explicitly enables terminal colors via ANSI escape sequences
XSLT Tasks:
- Uses extended Saxon command-line-interface to support color xsl:message output:
  - Uses version in SaxonJAR path to determine the extended class version to use Saxon99/Saxon10/saxon11/Saxon12
- Force use of base Saxon command-line-interface with tasks.json property: "messageEscaping": "on"

Release 1.5.3

3 February 2023

Improvements

XPath Result Serializer:
- Upgraded to v0.1.0 of XSLT module - supports bracket-pair colorisation etc.
- QuickFix xsl:include path for XSLT module is now relative
- QuickFix xsl:include path for XSLT module uses existing xpath-result-serializer.xsl path if found already in workspace folder
- Saxon TextEmitter used by default when Saxon version prior to 9.2.0.2 found (override with XSLT task setting 'messageEscaping:on'

Bug fixes

#119: xsl:strip-space - problem wrongly reported for leading/trailing whitespace in elements attribute

Release 1.5.2

31 January 2023

Improvements

Refactoring:
- 'Extract xsl:variable' has improved indentation for extracted multi-line expressions
XSLT Diagnostics:
- New xsl:message auto-complete expoits new ext:print() function
- Serializes any XPath 3.1 item with colorisation (when supported) and formatting
- A QuickFix on the function inserts the required xsl:include and xmlns:ext="... code

Release 1.5.1

19 January 2023

Improvements

XSLT 4.0:
- Added htmlParserJar User Setting for path of nu.validator.jar or htmlparser.jar
- A warning is now set on parse-html function if the htmlParserJar property is not set in User Settings
- Support for the slice() XPath function has been removed as the specification for this is changing
Refactoring
- 'Extract xsl:variable' support added to existing 'Extract xsl:template' and 'Extract xsl:function' support

Bug fixes

PickFile Task Input Command:
- If recently used files were picked from list they were not promoted to top of list for next time - now fixed
- For 'Select XSLT' command: if current-file was not xml an 'undefined.range' error occurred when checking for xml-stylesheet - now fixed
- Don't show QuickPick list if there are no options other than 'Pick File' - go straight to the 'Pick File' option

Release 1.5.0

16 January 2023

Improvements

Updated XSLT 4.0 support for Saxon 12:
- New XPath 4.0 functions
- Fixed support for types: type() and atomic()
- Allow types to be used in match patterns
XSLT Task Pick Commands:
- To help distinguish same-filenames in the 'recently used' list, long-paths are left-truncated at point where paths diverge
- #114: Command xslt-xpath.pickXsltFile includes <?xml-stylesheet href... ?> in the current file in the pick-list

Bugfixes

XPath 4.0 unwanted error because '->' operator did not supply context to function definition within {}

Release 1.4.3

12 January 2023

Bugfixes

Namespace scoping issues Issue #116:
- erroneously reported a prefix error when xmlns declared on same element but after the error token
- failed to report prefix error when preceding self-closed element was declared with same prefix in xmlns declaration

Release 1.4.2

11 January 2023

Improvements

Improved clarity of file pick list
More details in documentation on how to use new pickfile commands

Bugfixes

Recently used list was not cleared properly in workspacestate

Release 1.4.1

10 January 2023

Features

Issue #110: XSLT Tasks can prompt for file-selection via file-explorer or 'recent files' list
- "xsltFile": "${command:xslt-xpath.pickXsltFile}", select from current file - if xslt - or recently used xslt files
- "xmlSource": "${command:xslt-xpath.pickXmlSourceFile}", select from current file or recently used stage1 source files
- "xmlSource": "${command:xslt-xpath.pickStage2XmlSourceFile}", select from recently used stage2 source files or stage1 result files
- "resultPath": "${command:xslt-xpath.pickResultFile}", save to recently used stage1 result files
- "resultPath": "${command:xslt-xpath.pickStage2ResultFile}", save to recently used stage2 result files
New Command: XSLT: Add XSLT inputs to Tasks File
- Adds 'inputs' property to task.json to provide convenient way to customise file-selection
An information message is now shown when an XSLT task completes

User 'QuickPick' shown when task invoked referencing ${command:xslt-xpath.pickXsltFile}:

xslt-tasks-file

Release 1.4.0

2 January 2023

Features

New Support for VSCode Refactoring:
- Extract instructions to xsl:function - partial/full refactor +
- Extract expression to xsl:function - partial/full refactor +
- Extract instructions to xsl:template:
  - Adds required arguments for the function call - notable context-properties include:
    - 'variables' where variable references are not resolved for the new function
    - 'context' where context nodes are needed: node-name-test, axis, base-uri(), root, etc.
    - 'position' where the position() function lacks context
    - 'last' where the 'last()` function lacks context
  - Refactors xsl:variable to xsl:sequence if it is the last instruction within the new function
  - Adjusts code formatting for the new function
  - Adds appropriate expand-text attribute to the xsl:function instruction
  - Triggers the Rename Symbol action for the newly created function name
Symbol-Outline BreadCrumbs:
- selecting any part of an attribute now makes it the current symbol - previously only the attribute name was 'active'
Linter:
- Expressions requiring the context-item are highlighted as problems when there is no context-item
Syntax-Highlighter:
- More consistent highlighting for name-tests that include * wild card, like: @*:class or @dev:*

Bugfixes

'Rename Symbol' did not work as expected when a call to a function with no arguments was selected
Linter: The axis token in XPath expression like child::text() was not validated - now fixed
Syntax-highlighter: the name attribute of xsl:merge-source was treated as an Attribute Value Template

Release 1.3.8

21 November 2022

Bugfixes

XPath linter: the '+' occurrence indicator in item()+ and element('div')+ was not given the correct token type - causing the linter to falsely report an error

Release 1.3.7

17 October 2022

Bugfixes

A false problem was reported with := operator if it was not preceded by whitespace
A problem was reported for the '?' lookup operator following a '.' context-item selector - now fixed
XSLT 4.0: 'map' and 'array' attributes on instructions like 'xsl:for-each' were not treated as expressions - now fixed

Release 1.3.6

9 October 2022

Features

Auto-complete for XML Comments improved - now triggered by '!' character following '<'
Auto-complete for CDATA section improved - now triggered by '!' character following '<'
Auto-complete for Processing Instructions improved - now triggered by '?' character following '<'

Bugfixes

Problem was reported for '/' step operator following an attribute-name test e.g. @attr/string() - now fixed

Release 1.3.5

25 September 2022

Bugfixes

Fixed 'Goto Definition' for mode symbol of xsl:template, xsl:apply-templates and xsl:mode instructions
Fixed 'Goto References' for mode symbol of xsl:template, xsl:apply-templates and xsl:mode instructions
Fixed 'Rename Symbol' for mode symbol of xsl:template, xsl:apply-templates and xsl:mode instructions

Release 1.3.4

13 September 2022

Bugfixes

Regression: '\' step operator reported as invalid if it follows a variable: e.g. $a/books - now fixed

Release 1.3.3

12 September 2022

Bugfixes

Regression: '?' lookup operator reported as invalid if it follows a map-lookup: e.g. $a?top?title - now fixed

Release 1.3.2

11 September 2022

Bugfixes

Sticky-Scroll: xsl:variable did not stick while xsl:sequence did - now fixed
Lexer: spurious unexpected token error for empty map constructor: map{}
Issue #105: linter in error when reporting on value of use attribute of xsl:context-item instruction - now fixed
Issue #106: when a function is referenced using the ? map lookup operator, the arity of that function is not known statically and should therefore not be checked

Features

Linter now checks that token following a => arrow operator is valid
Linter now checks that token preceding a ? map lookup operator is valid

Release 1.3.1

29 August 2022

Bugfixes

Issue #103 validation for elements in xsl:preserve-space and xsl:strip-space only accepted * value - now fixed
Auto-completion for modes:
- '#' char was repeated if it was the auto-complete trigger - for example: ##current
- did not split space-separated mode names
- for xsl:template instruction did not include '#all'
- modes used/defined in imported modules were not included in auto-complete list - now fixed

Release 1.3.0

9 August 2022

Bug Fixes

Issue #102: 'Goto Definition' command failed from a multi-line function call. Now fixed.

Release 1.2.9

12 June 2022

Bug Fixes

XML formatter: Detected newline following internal DTD subset prevented line-formatting of the whole document - now fixed
XML formatter: Adding an empty newline within an attribute value produced inconsistent indentation - now fixed

Release 1.2.8

2 June 2022

Features

Document Comparator Pipeline (DCP) support extended for new CALS table processing features added in XML Compare 12.0

Bug Fixes

'Select Element' command: selection included character following the element end
'Select Next/Previous Element' commands did not work reliably when repeated
A spurious problem was reported for XPath comment following a ',' char in a complex expression

Release 1.2.7

22 May 2022

Features (improved linter)

XSLT attribute values with enum types are now validated
'Document Comparator Pipeline` (DCP) elements and attribute names are now validated
DCP attribute values with enum types are now validated

Release 1.2.6

16 May 2022

Bug Fixes

The XPath linter could erroneously report variable reference problems if complex expressions, like an 'If Expression' occurred within a multi-part 'Let Expression', this issue has now been fixed

Release 1.2.5

5 May 2022

Features

Improved auto-complete snippets for xsl:try / xsl:catch blocks

Bug fixes

Text for mouse-hover assistance on XSLT functions had missing space characters following as for return types

Release 1.2.4

30 April 2022

Bug fixes

A spurious 'variable not defined' error was reported when an IfExpr was nested within a LetExpr - now fixed

Release 1.2.3

9 April 2022

Bug fixes

XPath 4.0 expressions of the form: for $member in $var... were not supported by the DiagnosticsProvider - now fixed

Release 1.2.2

12 March 2022

Bug fixes

fn:count and fn:code-points-to-string functions (using prefixes) were erroneously marked with an arity error - now fixed
linter marked <= and >= as errors - now fixed
Regression in last release cause 'expand-text' attribute on root element to be ignored - now fixed

Release 1.2.1

6 March 2022

Features

Improved auto-complete for XSLT 4.0 xsl:switch instructions

Bug fixes

xsl:if instruction in XSLT 4.0 did not support 'then' and 'else' attributes - now fixed

Release 1.2.0

2 March 2022

Features

Basic language support for XSLT 4.0 (proposed)
- Auto-completion for new functions and XSLT instructions
- Hover assistance for new function signatures
- Syntax-highlighting
- Linter extended for new syntax, functions and XSLT instructions
- New allowSyntaxExtensions40 property for XSLT tasks (default:off)

Release 1.1.1

19 February 2022

Bug Fixes

Rename Symbol and Find All References features did not support xsl:with-param declarations inside xsl:next-iteration
Rename Symbol and Find All References features did not support xsl:with-param declarations inside xsl:call-template

Release 1.1.0

17 February 2022

Features

Rename Symbol
- All in-scope usages of the symbol will be renamed - across all imported stylesheet modules
Find All References
- View and navigate between all references for a selected symbol in the References Pane

Release 1.0.2

1 February 2022

Bug Fixes

Issue #93 - when the => operator was used before an anonymous function call, the arity of subsequent calls to named functions was calculated as if the => operator preceded them also, so a problem was reported in error

Release 1.0.1

29 January 2022

Bug Fixes

Erroneous problem was reported for map(*) and array(*) used for type testing, because these were tokenized as functions - now fixed
Auto-completion for <xsl:text> was a self-closing tag - now fixed

Features

Auto-completion for <xsl:choose> now includes a child <xsl:when> instruction
Issue #94 - don't report problems for functions in the 5 (legacy) EXSLT namespaces documented here

Release 1.0.0

15 January 2022

Version number set to 1.0.0 to re-baseline this release after 2 years development and 16K+ installs

Bug Fixes

Error occurred when initialTemplate in tasks.json was set to an empty-string. Now fixed

Features

XSLT-JS Tasks: To export XSLT files to SEF without execution, a new (optional) 'execute' property can be set 'false'

Code Tidying

Early preparation for web extension for taskproviders: avoid 'rootpath' and use of NodeJS path api

Release 0.3.17

20 December 2021

Bug Fixes

issue #92 Line breaks in XPath string literal caused 'unexpected token' problem to be reported erroneously (Originally reported in XPath Notebook issue #6)

Release 0.3.16

28 November 2021

Bug Fixes

issue #91 A problem was erroneously reported when an ifElse expression, without enclosing brackets, was included in an XPath Map constructor.
No problem was reported when a trailing else operator was found following an ifExpr
For compound expressions like forExpr, no problem was reported when a , (comma) operator was found when an expression was expected

Release 0.3.15

2 November 2021

Features

Added support for SaxonJS Interactive Extensions
- Auto-completion for xmlns, extension instructions, extension functions and browser-events in modes
- Problem reporting for extension instructions and extension functions
- Interactive function signature/description shown on hover

Release 0.3.14

27 October 2021

Features

Special syntax-highlighting for map-keys inside map-constructors that are strings
Improved problem-reporting for problems inside map-constructors

Bug Fixes

Problem was reported spuriously for * occurrence indicator when declaring an arg for an anonymous function - e.g. $a as node()*

Release 0.3.13

2 October 2021 (update)

Published with updated vsce tool as previous release did not appear to update properly in the VS Code Marketplace. Updated Readme.md.

Release 0.3.12

2 October 2021

Features

Improved semantic token configuration to work better with 'Kary Pro' color them

Bug Fixes

issue #89 VS Code froze when opening a new XSLT file in the editor or deleting all the context of an existing XSLT file in the editor

Release 0.3.11

12 September 2021

Features

XPath location auto-completion can now use context from XPath Notebook variables

Bug Fixes

issue #86 the ? lookup operator was erroneously marked as an error at the start of a predicate

Release 0.3.10

6 September 2021

Patch for regression bug

previous release caused XSLT function lookup to fail due to arity error - now fixed

Release 0.3.9

6 September 2021

Bug Fixes

Auto-completion for XPath location node-name test following .. step operator failed - now fixed
Auto-completion for XPath location * wildcard and node() following .. step operator failed - now fixed

Release 0.3.8

5 September 2021

Features

XPath location auto-completion improvements:
- Support union | and comma , operators in parenthesis: /books/(paperback|hardback)/
- Support variables in XPath locations: let $a := /countries, $b := $a/country return $b/...
- Add XPath location auto-completion support on lhs and rhs of expressions within parenthesis and functions

Release 0.3.7

3 September 2021

Features

XSLT editor auto-completion improvements:
- Provides auto-completion for XPath location steps using last active XML source
Standalone XPath editor auto-completion improvements:
- Improved trigger for auto-completion list
- Provides auto-completion for XPath location steps using last active XML source
New Use Source File user setting controls how completion-list for XPath node names is populated

Bug Fixes

issue #83 references to imported functions erroneously reported as broken due to function arity problem
issue #84 when xslt editor lost focus - spurious problems were often reported in the non-focused editor
issue #85 XSLT Tasks: when xmlSource property was not supplied the -s: command-line arg was still used resulting in a Saxon error.

Release 0.3.6

10 August 2021

Features

Links in documentation for new XPath Notebook companion extension
Improved XPath problem-reporting
- When scope of range-variables limited by ',' sequence concatanation op
- In if/else block, when ',' sequence concatanation op found instead of 'else'
- New 'Select first child element' command
- Added Keyboard shortcuts for all 'XML: Select ... element' commands

Bug Fixes

'Goto XPath' command did not work reliably - now fixed
'Select ... element' commands did not work reliably - now fixed
'EnableAssertions' setting in Saxon XSLT task caused an error when XSLT task was run
'Timing' setting in Saxon XSLT was confusing as it allowed any string - permitted strings now: 'on' and 'off'

Release 0.3.5

28 July 2021

Features

New xslt-xpath.selectXPathInDocument: Opens file with uri arg and selects XML node indicated by the xpath arg

Bug Fixes

Goto XPath command, selected the node but did not scroll to the selection. This has now been fixed.

Release 0.3.4

24 July 2021

Features

new setVariableNames external command for XPath problem reporting and auto-completion (required by XPath Notebook)
'XPath Prolog' support for % prolog-separator (required by XPath Notebook)

Bug Fixes

Release 0.3.3

9 July 2021

Bug Fixes

issue #78 When hovering over a higher-order function reference (e.g. substring#2) hover-assistance is now shown.
Auto-completion snippet for xsl:value-of instruction is now a self-closed tag
Spurious problem reported for xs:numeric
Auto-completion list for types now includes xs:numeric

Features

New root-element auto-completion snippet for xsl:package
Auto-completion snippet for xsl:copy no longer includes the select attribute (not commonly used)

Release 0.3.2

17 June 201

Bug Fixes

issue #74 Problems reported in a file after the document is no longer the active document. Problems were not reported when the file was the active document.
The Auto-complete suggestions list was triggered when invoking the Tag Close feature by pressing </ - this has now been fixed.
Inferred imports - if a stylesheet module was indirectly imported, only the parent was imported, instead of the parent's parent etc.
Syntax highlighting for attribute name was not right when entity reference was within the attribute value

Release 0.3.1

11 June 2021

Bug Fixes

issue #73 Spurious 'Invalid Name' problem reported in XPath for @*:data

Features

issue #71 Saxon XSLT Tasks now support the --feature command-line arg: For example, to disable DTD validation:

--parserFeature?uri=http%3A//apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd:false

issue #72 Inferred xsl:import - when navigating from parent stylesheet to non-standalone stylesheet modules with missing xsl:import. Prevents spurious 'not defined' warnings, improves auto-completion etc.

Release 0.3.0

June 4 2021

Bug Fixes

issue #67: Error thrown in other extensions because parsing of task.json was not robust for JSONC
issue #68: Syntax highlighting of last char of an XPath within an attribute-value-template was not correct
To prepare for remote environments (SSH etc) - file handling now uses the VSCode API instead of NodeJS

Features

New Documentation for the extension: User Guide for XSLT/XPath in Visual Studio Code

Release 0.2.9

May 16 2021

Bug Fixes

issue #63: spurious errors reported for map {$id: $name} - caused by tokenizer problem with $id:
issue #64: name attribute for non self-closed xsl:with-param element with tunnel="yes" attribute was marked as invalid
issue #65: when running xslt-js tasks on Windows the terminal process exits with error code 193

Feature Changes

The xslt-js task now uses npx for running the xslt3 package and thus no longer needs/uses the path specified at nodeModulesFolder

Release 0.2.8

May 15 2021

Bug Fixes

XML error was reported when whitespace found outside root element - now fixed
XPath formatting: If comma found at end of else block the block indentation was not reverted - now fixed
issue #56: $err:line-number variable reference not recognized
issue #57: xsl:with-param names for xsl:call-template no longer checked if there's a tunnel attribute
issue #58: xsl:break instruction not entered properly in schema - spuriously reported invalid select attribute
issue #59: * token following a ] was not converted to op:numeric-multiply token - causing a spurious validation error for the following operand - now fixed
issue #60: spurious 'invalid entity name' warning for 	
issue #61: spurious 'undeclared prefix' warning for preix of a node-test in xpath when xmlns declaration is on same element
issue #62: Clash with vs-code-bpmn-io extension - was overriding the 'bpmn' language id to 'xml' - causing said extension to not recognize BPMN files.

Features

Basic XML syntax checking for BPMN files
Syntax highlighting for BPMN files - uses Semantic highlighting
XML formatting for BPMN files

Release 0.2.7

May 1 2021

Bug Fixes

there was no auto-completion for XSLT attribute names on new lines - now fixed
no problem was shown if duplicate xmlns declaration was found on same element tag - now fixed
auto-completion: excessive triggering of the suggestion list was distracting - suggestion list no longer triggered for space characters

Features

function signature and description shown on hover for built-in functions in XPath or XSLT

Release 0.2.6

March 20 2021

Bug Fixes

as-you-type indentation for XPath files was erratic - this issue has now been fixed
XPath expressions with ? operator following a ! operator were wrongly marked as invalid
xsl:output method auto-complete now includes 'json' and 'adaptive'

Features

XSLT Tasks: Saxon-JS 2.1 -json command-line arg is now supported via the useJsonSource boolean property
new command for extensions: xslt-xpath.symbolFromXPath
All symbol-related features now support XML attributes
- Outline View: XML attributes shown within an attributes container for each XML element
- Goto XPath XPath locations ending in /@attributename navigate to the actual attribute instead of the containing XML element

Release 0.2.5

March 10 2021

Features

(bug fixes only)

Bug Fixes

The 'Goto Definition' feature for functions, variables and other symbols from an imported/included file did not work on Windows. This was due to character escaping issues when creating the file URI. This issue has now been fixed.

Release 0.2.4

March 6 2021

Features

(bug fixes only)

Bug Fixes

Attempt to resolve XSLT task issues associated with shell-specific escaping. The Saxon JS and Java tasks now use a processExecution instead of a shellExecution.

Release 0.2.3

February 25 2021

Features

(bug fixes only)

Bug Fixes

An entity-ref or character-ref in XPath string literal was shown as error incorrectly - this has now been fixed
A * multiplication op was incorrectly tokenised as a wildcard - causing the following number token to be shown incorrectly as an error - this issue has now been fixed.

Release 0.2.2

February 24 2021

Features

Standalone XPath editor diagnostics: Use XML namespace prefixes from last active XML document
Goto XPath - quick input XPath location to select specific XML element
Get XPath - show XPath location for current selection
XML Element Editor Selection commands:
- Current Element
- Preceding Element
- Following Element
- Parent Element
Extension Command - Select element for given XPath

Bug Fixes

For Windows OS, the 'follow-link' feature for xsl:import did not work - this has now been fixed

Release 0.2.1

February 10 2021

Features

Formatting provider no longer attempts to fix indentation of CDATA content
New auto-completion for CDATA, XML comments and XML processing instructions
Stand-alone XPath editor:
- new problem reporting exploits existing XSLT editor features for XPath
- new XPath-only code formatter

Bug Fixes

Issue #37: String literal error was reported for "text"
for/let expressions were not checked for in/:= operators

Release 0.2.0

January 23 2021

Features

New auto-completion for 'xsl:message' to output formatted list of in-scope variable names/values
Minor enhancements to token definitions - improves syntax-highlighting for some colour themes

Release 0.1.9

January 4 2021

Bug Fixes

Issue #27: Token error was reported when XML file was empty
Auto-completion items: within xsl:iterate instruction, the xsl:next-iteration instruction is now shown
Auto-completion items: only xsl:param names for xsl:iterate now shown within name value of xsl:with-param inside a xsl:next-iteration
On accepting the xsl:next-iteration auto-completion item, the snippet inserted now includes an xsl:param instruction
XML angle-brackets now have alternate punctuation.definition.tag.xi scope to support themes like One Dark Pro
Triggering of auto-complete suggestions is not inhibited when following an auto tag-close

Features

Problem reporting for invalid XSLT instruction names - given the parent instruction
Problem reporting for invalid XSLT attribute names on XSLT elements

Release 0.1.8

August 27 2020

Bug Fixes

Issue #27: TypeScript build issue affecting linux users (extension load error) - compiled version of xsltSchema.ts had incorrect case
Issue #27: getTextForToken causes unhandled error if token.startCharacter < 0

Release 0.1.7

August 23 2020

Features

XML entity references within XPath string-literals now have special syntax highlighting
Improved context-checking when triggering auto-completion
Now supports auto-completion for mode in xsl:apply-templates
Now supports auto-completion for xsl:with-param names within xsl:next-iteration
Now checks xsl:with-param names within xsl:next-iteration

Bug Fixes

XML Well-formedness: entity references within XPath string-literals were not checked
XML namespace prefixes for variable names were not checked, for example, err in $err:code
Auto-completion data for mode names included 'stale' data from previous edits

Release 0.1.6

August 9 2020

Features

Improved XPath Diagnostics
- Show error when an XSLT attribute expecting XPathExpr is empty
- Improved error reporting for missing operators in XPathEXPr
For code-folding, added support for region and endregion processing instructions

Bug Fixes

Two-word XPath operators like 'instance of' were reported as errors

Release 0.1.5

August 6 2020

Features

Resolves XSLT package names in xsl:use-package instructions
More extensive XPath syntax checking
Improved auto-completion

Bug Fixes

In some cases, there were duplicates in the auto-complete items list

Release 0.1.4

July 22 2020

Features

More extensive built-in checking of XPath syntax within XSLT
User settings can enable/disable XSLT tasks
The XSLT TaskProviders resolveTask function is now implemented - to co-exist with other TaskProviders
Trigger auto-complete for xmlns declaration

Bug Fixes

Incorrect tokenising of function names with 'Q' character
Error was not reported for user-defined function name with no prefix
Some valid operator tokens at end of XPaths were reported as errors
Task providers did not handle trailing , inside tasks.json
Auto-completion item for xsl:param inside xsl:function incorrectly included a select attribute

Release 0.1.3

July 12 2020

Features

Saxon-JS Integration for Visual Studio Code (Stable)
New options for Saxon (Java) XSLT Tasks - Issue #17
Auto-completion added for XSLT literal-result elements/attributes
Auto-completion for generic XML elements/attributes
Auto-completion for XSLT elements with start/end tags now inserts cursor in new empty line between tags
Added checks for token preceding an XPath string-literal, if any, is valid
Added check for incomplete XPath string-literal at end of expression
Added support for DeltaXML's Document Comparator Pipeline (DCP) format

Bug Fixes

XPath variable declarations following string-literals in let-expressions were not checked/resolved
In XPath, / * and . chars following a , char were marked as errors
In XPath ?* lookup operation was not tokenised properly - affected auto-completion/error reporting
In XPath $element/@xml:* the xml prefix was marked as an error
An XSLT non self-closed global variable declaration would be incorrectly marked as unused - when not followed by a self-closed element
Attempted to load file even when XSLT import/include hrefs referenced a directory

Release 0.1.2

June 28 2020

Features

XSLT Transforms can now be configured for and run by Saxon-JS 2.0 in Node.

Bug Fixes

An uppercase 'Q' character in a variable name showed incorrect syntax highlight color and diagnostic error - was caused by a tokenisation issue.
Undeclared namespace prefixes in node-name tests and attribute-name tests in XPath expressions were not being marked as invalid.
Pasting content after the first non-whitespace char on a line caused that line to be indented incorrectly
In XPath, the expression '?*' marked as the only part of the expression or at the end of an expression was marked as invalid.
Auto-completion: xmlns declaration for XPath map namespace was assigning the 'array' prefix.
Self-closing a start tag with no attributes did not cause the orphaned end tag to be deleted.
XSLT Tasks: Specified parameters in task were duplicated in the command-line
XSLT Tasks: Specified parameters were not properly enclosed in " (quote) characters.
Diagnostic error was incorrectly shown for an XPath ending with , . or , * or , /

Release 0.1.1

June 26 2020

Features

Converting a start-tag (with a corresponding end-tag) to a self-closing tag by adding a '/' char results in the element contents up to and including the end tag being deleted. To keep the XML well-formed.

Bug Fixes

'As-you-type' formatting was erratic within XPath expressions when adding a new-line. This issue has not been fixed.

Release 0.1.0

June 21 2020

First release to Visual Studio Code Marketplace