I really like how heaps of the new webparts in v3 and moss have
an XSL editor to control their appearance. However I often find it
a bit of pain not really knowing what the XML looks like.
Had a search round the web to see if I could find a way of
outputing the xml. Found this thing called xml-to-string that does
exactly that. How do you use it? Just upload the xml-to-string.xsl
file to a doc library somewhere on your site.
Then you can reference it in your xsl like so:
<xsl:include href="xml-to-string.xsl" />
and to view the entire xml output just add the follwing line to
the root template:
<!-- XSL transformation starts here -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- add this line -->
<xsl:call-template name="xml-to-string" />-->
....
</xsl:template>
Sample output:
I used this in a search webpart to see if my managed properties
where coming through. Turned out they were there but had just been
lower cased.