For me, the most useful design documents are specifications of the
expected input and output; I use mostly XML Schema, and I am very
lucky to have an internal tool generating usable HTML documentation
from a set of XML Schema files.

Starting with well specified data formats and some template structure
of XSLT stylesheet, the transformation is usually on the right track.

For communication with customers or management, I would recommend
simple diagrams depicting the different steps of the transformation,
not entering into the details of each transformation.

At 2007-04-16 17:12 -0500, Angela Williams wrote:
>What design documents have you found to be the most useful for XSLT?

>

You characterized your question using the words "design documents"
... so are you speaking of before the act of writing the actual
stylesheet code, or are you looking at somehow reflecting an existing
stylesheet in a diagram?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken