Setup recommended course tools [May 6, 2012, 3:26 p.m.]
We want to have very simple ways for folks to get xslt tools set up so that it is easy to start testing things out. Please review the following and make any additions and clarifications. As each of use gets tools set up, it would be nice to flesh out the instructions for which ever operating system and tools we are using.
Tools Basics
Marvin's (therealmarv) personal advice for tools to get started learning.
- Use simple commandline transformation (e.g. xsltproc or Saxon) and avoid browser XSLT at first.
- Get to know XSLT 2.0 with Saxon-B (Saxon-B ist the most advanced free available XSLT processor). My GDocs->CNXML transformation uses XSLT 1.0. But without knowing the concepts in my head of XSLT 2.0 I would not be successful with my complex GDocs transformations.
Saxon-B Command-line Tool
- sourceforge.net/projects/saxon
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Sample commandline for using XSLT with Saxon-B:
- java -jar saxon9.jar -s:source.xml -xsl:style.xsl -o:output.xml
Ubuntu instructions
- sudo apt-get install libsaxonb-java