An XSLT transform to make a Bash script out of a test catalog

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This XSLT stylesheet reads a test catalog and writes a bash script which runs the tests and writes a test report to a file to a specified output directory.

After running the bash script, the output directory also contains:

• a test report in the form described by our test-catalog schema,
• the XML documents produced by running the tests, and
• copies of any grammars and test strings given inline in the test catalog.

In the current version of the stylesheet, the bash script produced has several shortcomings:

• Because its initial use is in performance testing, it doesn't actually check whether the results are correct or not.
• It does not handle references to external test sets.
• It has no sanity checking: if something goes wrong, it will not recover gracefully.

Several parameters are needed; see the stylesheet source code for details.