XSLT = [XSL] '''T'''ransformations. The specification can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt [[Explain what XSLT is.]] [[Point to http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.xml/XSLT.html also.]] [LES]: ''One of the links in Cameron's page, "Using tDOM and tDOM XSLT", is broken. That same link is mentioned at [tDOM]'s home page: [http://www.tdom.org]. Now, I wonder if anyone still has that article...'' The March 2002 '''Linux Journal''' [http://www.linuxjournal.com] leads off with an introduction to XSLT [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5622] which features [tDOM]. ---- Two implementations are already in industrial production. [Zveno]'s [TclXSLT] .... Early in development, Zveno also wrapped [James Clark]'s XSL processor with [TclBlend] (!). This is now obsolete. Zveno's standard [TclXSLT], like its [TclXML], comes in both [pure-Tcl] and compiled-with-C flavors. [Steve Ball]: No, that's not true. TclXSLT is a wrapper for libxslt and does not have a pure-Tcl implementation. [Jochen Loewer]'s [tDOM] includes XSLT (and [XPath]!) capabilities which make it the fastest raw engine available, better even than any of the commercial Java offerings. ---- [Neil Madden], aware of the existing XSLT implementations, is considering wrapping ([Apache]'s) Xalan or even coding a subset of XSLT in pure Tcl. ''[NEM]'' - I've given up on this as I managed to compile [tDOM] with XSLT support for the platforms I need. Which platforms? I've been searching for an [XSLT] engine that would do some simple transforms on Linux, MacOS 8.1, and Win32. I've compiled [TclXSLT] on Win32, but can't get it to do any transforms without crashing. That's about as far as I've gotten. My plan was going to involve just calling xsltproc as an external process on Win32 and Linux, and disabling the XSLT-related parts of the Mac version of my program. But if [tDOM] works on MacOS, then I can use that instead. Which tDOM binaries have you successfully compiled and built? --''[unDees]'' ---- Would Graphlet [http://www.infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de/Graphlet/] make for a nice XSLT front end? What are the other [Graph editors]? [AK] I do not believe so, at least not at first glance. At its core XSLT is a tree transformation language. ---- [[Recommend Mike Kay's XSLT Programmer's Reference.]] [RS] has been reading his paper "What kind of language is XSLT?". Some quotes: "Although XSLT is based on functional programming ideas, it is not yet a full functional programming language, as it lacks the ability to treat functions as first-class data type." - "The XSLT language allows variables to be defined, but does not allow an existing variable to change its value - there is no assignment statement." Some code snippets compared, just to give an impression. First Tcl: variable foo 42 $foo ;# in some output context foreach i $list {...} XSLT: ... Apart from $, @ may also prefix a variable name - possibly scalar/array distinction as in [Perl]? [Steve Ball]: @ references an attribute value. It does not dereference a variable. Only $ does that. ---- Another example: a function to format a number left-justified fixed-width: It's called like this: The whole stuff above roughly amounts to Tcl's proc formatNum number {format %-5d $number} set fstring [formatNum $cred] ---- Another intriguing code base for XSLT processing is the Sablotron [http://www.gingerall.com/charlie/ga/xml/p_sab.xml] open-source engine, written in C++. ---- [schlenk] I have made up a simple Tk GUI for using multiple processors. Not as polished and nice as tkxsltproc from the TclXSLT demo and missing some of its features, but maybe useful for someone. See [A Tk GUI for multiple XSLT processors]. ---- [dkf]: If XSLT's the answer, can I have a different question please? ---- [gtdh] Moved from XLST where I created this with a Typo (Doh!). I started this page to capture an example of using XLST with Tcl from the Tcl News Group. [Glenn Halstead] Posted by Miko le pepe on 12/06/2004 20:50 To invoke an extension in an XSL stylesheet, first declare the extension in your Tcl script. For example: ::xslt::extension add http://www.zveno.com/Example ::example Then use the normal XSLT extension mechanism. The XML Namespace matches the extension to the registered Tcl namespace (NB. the stylesheet author is free to choose any prefix for the extension namespace.) For example, Result of calling extension is " ". This stylesheet would result in the following Tcl script being evaluated: ::example::myfunc foo Miko la honte I must say that the above code is extract from the TclXSLT's docs of the [ActiveState] distribution... --- [tkxsltproc] ---- [SRB]: 2004-06-15: Added Tcl script requirement and modified stylesheet to include extension-element-prefixes attribute. ---- !!!!!! %|[Category Acronym] | [Category XML]|% !!!!!!