XSLT source other than XML

Jscottwill · July 24th, 2009, 04:21 AM

on Pp 288 of the text it states the following:

"In XSLT 1.0 the source had to be XML. In version 2.0 this restriction does not apply and you can transform other formats, such as CSV files, wherer the data is separated by commas and carriage returns, into different structures"

Does anyone have any examples of this implementation? I've searched the internet and all I've found were tools that perform the translation which leads me to believe that this may have been a misprint. If you have an example, I respectfully request that you post it. Thanks for entertaining this query.

-Jeff Williams
MOVES Curric 399-081
Naval Postgraduate School

joefawcett · July 24th, 2009, 07:07 AM

The Saxon processor is a full XSLT 2.0 implementation. Look for the unparsed-text function in the docs.

It's basically used in the same way as the document function but the result is a plain string not an XML document.

It means you can bring in text documents, you still can't have a non-XML document as the primary source of the transformation.

I was fairly sure that there was also an example in the book you mentioned but perhaps I'm wrong.

Added: I think the example mentioned is in Chapter 8 in the XSLT 2.0 section. An old fashioned ini file is transformed into a more modern XML representation.