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      <h1>saxon:explain</h1>
      <p>This attribute may be set on any instruction in the stylesheet, including a literal
result element, though the recommended use is to set it on an <code>xsl:template</code> or <code>xsl:function</code>
declaration. The permitted values
are "yes" and "no". If the value is "yes", then at compile time Saxon outputs (to the standard error
output) a representation of the optimized expression tree for the template or function containing that instruction. The tree is
represented by indentation. For example, consider this source code:</p>
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 &lt;xsl:variable name="p" select="0"/&gt;

 &lt;xsl:template match="/" saxon:explain="yes" xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/" exclude-result-prefixes="saxon"&gt;
   &lt;a&gt;
     &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
     &lt;xsl:when test="$p != 0"&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="1 div $p"/&gt;&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
     &lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;12&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
     &lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
   &lt;/a&gt;
 &lt;/xsl:template&gt;</code>
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      <p>This produces the output:</p>
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            <code>Optimized expression tree for template at line 8 in file:/e:/temp/test.xsl:
&lt;directElement name="a" validation="skip"&gt;
  &lt;valueOf&gt;
    &lt;literal value="12" type="xs:string"/&gt;
  &lt;/valueOf&gt;
&lt;/directElement&gt;</code>
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      <p>This indicates that the template has been reduced to an instruction to create an element with name <code>a</code>,
whose content is a single text node holding the string "12". This is because Saxon has established at
compile time that it will always take the "otherwise" branch of the <code>xsl:choose</code>
instruction. There is no <code>xsl:value-of</code> instruction in the source code, but the literal
text node "12" is compiled to the same code as if the user had written 
<code>&lt;xsl:value-of select="'12'"/&gt;</code></p>
      <p>To get this output for all templates and functions in the stylesheet, you can use the <code>-explain</code>
option on the command line.</p>
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