Is something like p.a.theming diazo.debug possible with diazo standalone?

Question

With p.a.theming it is possible to use diazo.debug to get an overlay containing your annotated rules. See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.app.theming#theme-debugging

The overlay shows what rules are matched when performing a transform of a specific page of your content - see the image above.

Is something similar possible when running diazo standalone with paster? That is, is it possible to show info about matched rules when doing a transform?

The diazo command line tools (diazocompiler, diazopreprocessor, diazorun) only show info about compiling your rules to xslt as far as I know - or is more possible?

Answer 1

If you pip install diazo (I'd use a virtualenv), you'll get three command-line scripts:

• diazocompiler
• diazopreprocessor
• diazorun

that will allow you to run all the diazo operations from the command line. You''ll be most interested in diazorun with the runtrace command-line option which will allow you to annotate a rules file with the results of a transformation. It will tell you all you want to know -- and more.