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<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>
&xsldbg; is a text based tool to debug stylesheets (the eXtensible
Stylesheet Language) and has commands similar to the Unix/Linux debugger
gdb. It has three major modes of execution of stylesheets.
</para>
<para>
<informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="1"><tbody>
	    <row><entry>Run the whole stylesheet</entry></row>
            <row><entry>Step to next xsl instruction</entry></row>
	    <row><entry>Continue until next break point is found, or stylesheet has restarted</entry></row>
     </tbody></tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>

</chapter>