# Authorization Testing Automation Cheat Sheet — Rendering the authorization matrix for an audit / review

> Even if the authorization matrix is stored in a human-readable format (XML), you might want to show an on-the-fly rendered representation of the XML file to spot potential inconsistencies and facilitate the review, audit and discussion about the authorization matrix.

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Even if the authorization matrix is stored in a human-readable format (XML), you might want to show an on-the-fly rendered representation of the XML file to spot potential inconsistencies and facilitate the review, audit and discussion about the authorization matrix.

To achieve this task, you could use the following XSL stylesheet

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```xslt
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"&gt;
  &lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
    &lt;html&gt;
      &lt;head&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;Authorization Matrix&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;link rel="stylesheet"
        href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.6/css/bootstrap.min.css"
        integrity="sha384-rwoIResjU2yc3z8GV/NPeZWAv56rSmLldC3R/AZzGRnGxQQKnKkoFVhFQhNUwEyJ"
        crossorigin="anonymous" /&gt;
      &lt;/head&gt;
      &lt;body&gt;
        &lt;h3&gt;Roles&lt;/h3&gt;
        &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;xsl:for-each select="authorization-matrix/roles/role"&gt;
            &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
              &lt;xsl:when test="@name = 'ADMIN'"&gt;
                &lt;div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert"&gt;
                  &lt;strong&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:value-of select="@name" /&gt;
                  &lt;/strong&gt;
                  :
                  &lt;xsl:value-of select="@de
```

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