Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] XSL Launching questions

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

DOUG SATCHWELL wrote:
> I didn't know about XProc - it looks good. I would like to use it 
> instead of the XML config file I created. Could you knock together an 
> example pipeline that works in the same way as the one we have now? I 
> can use it as a template.
>
> XProc is very comprehensive, so much so that it would be almost 
> impossible to make a run dialog page that could configure it. So I 
> think the alternative would be to allow the user to specify a path to 
> an XProc file they have created instead.
Here's a sample from the yac XProc processor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xproc:pipeline name="pipe1" 
  xmlns:xproc="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/xproc/1.0";
  xmlns:yax="http://opsdesign.eu/yax/1.0";>
  <xproc:step name="trans1" type="xproc:XSLT" 
     yax:description="transforms 'a*' elements to 'b*' elmenents.">
     <xproc:input port="stylesheet" href="test/transformation1.xsl"/> 
  </xproc:step>
  <xproc:step name="trans2" type="xproc:XSLT" 
     yax:description="transforms 'b*' elements to 'c*' elmenents.">
     <xproc:input port="stylesheet" href="test/transformation2.xsl"/>
     <xproc:parameter name="transformer" value="Saxon6" /> 
  </xproc:step>
  <xproc:step name="trans3" type="xproc:XSLT" 
     yax:description="transforms 'c*' elements to 'd*' elmenents.">
     <xproc:input port="stylesheet" href="test/transformation3.xsl"/> 
     <xproc:parameter name="transformer" value="XSLTC" /> 
  </xproc:step>
</xproc:pipeline>

Yac can be found at:

http://yax.sourceforge.net/

I style typically tend to use Ant to create my pipelines if I need to do so, as I run them batch
and don't do too much realtime processing with XSLT pipelines.

I've put a feature request on the XSLT Tools requirements wiki page:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=XSL_Tools_Requirements

Dave