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The XSLT crosswalks will automatically reload an XSL stylesheet that has been modified, so you can edit and test stylesheets without restarting DSpace. You can test a dissemination crosswalk by hooking it up to an OAI-PMH crosswalk and using an OAI request to get the metadata for a known item.crosswalk by using a command-line utitlity. To test a dissemination crosswalk you have to run:

[dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun org.dspace.content.crosswalk.XSLTDisseminationCrosswalk <plugin name> <handle> [output-file]

For example, you can test the marc plugin on the handle 123456789/3 with:

[dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun org.dspace.content.crosswalk.XSLTDisseminationCrosswalk marc 123456789/3

Informations from the script will be printed to stderr while the XML output of the dissemination crosswalk will be printed to stdout. You can give a third parameter containing a filename to write the output into a file, but be careful: the file will be overwritten if it exists.

Testing a submission crosswalk works quite the same way. Use the following command-line utility, it Testing the submission crosswalk is more difficult, so we have supplied a command-line utility to help. It calls the crosswalk plugin to translate an XML document you submit, and displays the resulting intermediate XML (DIM). Invoke it with:

[dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun
     org.dspace.content.crosswalk.XSLTIngestionCrosswalk [-l] <plugin pluginname> input<input-filefile>

where plugin <plugin name> is the name of the crosswalk plugin to test (e.g. "LOM"), and <input-filefile> is a file containing an XML document of metadata in the appropriate format.

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