Here is a small quick release. IronXSLT v0.3. New in this version: IronXSLT installer turns on dynamic XSLT Intellisense Improved compatibility with Visual Studio 2008 ...
A very little known fact is that Visual Studio 2008 does support real XSLT intellisense - not a static XSLT schema-based one, but real dynamic intellisense enabling autocompletion of template names, modes, parameter/variable names, attribute set names, namespace prefixes etc. For some obscure reason it is off by default and ...
Here is another interesting problem: how do you generate HTML excerpts preserving HTML structure and style? Say you have long XHTML text: <b>This is a <span style="color: #888">very long</span> text.</b> In browser it looks like this: This is a very long text. The text is 25 characters long. Now you ...
We are working on yet another language migration tool and faced once again Java source code generation problem. Unfortunately Java doesn't have anything similar to .NET's CodeDOM, so we had to build own own Java generator. This time our development platform is XSLT 2.0. Yes, we are converting COOL:Gen (obscure ...
Sergey Dubinets, the guy behind Microsoft XSLT engine and tools is blogging. Subscribed. Highly recommended. More XSLT bloggers from Microsoft: Dimitre Novatchev, XSLT: Riding the challenge Anton Lapounov: XML XSLT and Beyond ...
Inspired by ioccc.org, just for fun, really. Can you figure out what this stylesheet outputs (without running it of course)? <!DOCTYPE p [ <!ENTITY _0_ 'string'> <!ENTITY _0-0_ 'sub&_0_;'> ]> <p x:version="1.0" xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <x:variable name="_" select="document('')"/> <x:variable name="_-_" select="number(not(_-_=_-_=_-_=_-_))"/> <x:value-of select="concat( &_0-0_;(namespace-uri($_/*/*[$_-_]), $_-_, $_-_), &_0-0_;(name($_/*/*[$_-_]), &_0_;-length(*>*)*2, $_-_), &_0-0_;(@_>_-, &_0_;-length(******* div ...
Microsoft XML Tools team has released XSLT profiler addin for Visual Studio 2008. I've heard about this tool and even did a little testing long time ago (apparently it's very hard to release anything in Microsoft). First thing you need to know about Microsoft XSLT profiler - it requires Visual ...
When you create new XSLT stylesheet in Visual Studio via project (Add/New Item) or globally (File/New/File aka Ctrl+N), you start with template content. This template is changing in every new Visual Studio version, probably because every new generation of developers working on XSLT tools in Visual Studio have different vision ...
State of the art of XSLT testing in a simple succinct format by Tony Graham. Creating a working stylesheet may seem like an end in itself, but once it’s written you may want it to run faster or you may not be sure that the output is correct (And if ...
I noticed Robert Robbins was writing about XSS attacks using XSLT: It is possible to extend the power of XSLT using JavaScript embedded into the XSL file. Therefore any web application that allows the user to upload their own XSL file will be vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting attacks. Well, that's ...
Better later than never. I uploaded IronXSLT 0.2 release. New in this version: IronXSLT should now run without Visual Studio 2008 SDK A notion of a Startup stylesheet in XSLT Library project "Debug" page in XSLT Library project properties, which has Startup stylesheet dropdown list "Set as StartUp Stylesheet ...
Here goes nxslt3.exe/NxsltTask v3.0. It's nxslt tool for .Net 3.5. It can do everything nxslt2/NxsltTask v2.3 can plus the ability to run compiled XSLT stylesheets. Now short documentation about running compiled XSLT stylesheets. Let's say you have a stylesheet called mytransform.xsl. First you compile it using nxsltc: nxsltc mytransform.xsl /out:mytransform.dll ...
I updated nxsltc - XSLT compiler for .NET 3.5 tool one more time. I added /version:<x.x.x.x> and /keyfile:<file> options. Former is used to specify resulting DLL version and latter - to sign it with a strong name. nxsltc.exe catalog2html.xslt /version:2.3.4.5 /keyfile:d:\keys\test.snk The usage now looks like this: D:\>nxsltc.exe ...
I also updated nxsltc.exe (well, just rebuilt it using Visual Studio 2008 Beta2). nXSLTC is an experimental XSLT to MSIL compiler for the forthcoming .NET 3.5. nXSLTC compiles one or more XSLT stylesheets into DLL. Compiled stylesheets then can be used for transforming XML documents using XslCompiledTransform class. Download nXSLTC ...
What's the probability of having two car accidents in one month? It must be high enough. Just a month after the first one some asshole hit me and run away. I wonder if it's a bad luck or actually a good luck? Sure, my own car is totaled and a company car ...
It's known that .NET XSLT engine - XslCompiledTransform natively supports two EXSLT extension functions - exsl:node-set() and exsl:object-type(). Not that it's widely known (msdn still says nothing about it), but lots of people are using this handy feature. The main benefit is that using EXSLT's version of node-set() function allows complex XSLT stylesheets ...
Producing XHTML using XSLT 1.0 processor is tough (no wonder - XSLT 1.0 is so old - it was published even before XHTML 1.0). While XHTML is just XML, XHTML spec defines a set of very specific formatting rules called "HTML Compatibility Guidelines". The goal is to facilitate rendering of XHTML ...
Saxon, famous XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor, supports XInclude since version 8.9. But in Java version only! When I first heard about it I thought "I have good XInclude implementation for .NET in Mvp.Xml library, let's check out if Saxon on .NET works with XInclude.NET". I did some testing only to ...
I released version 2.3 of the Mvp.Xml Library, which is part of the Mvp.Xml Project developed by Microsoft MVPs in XML technologies worldwide. It is aimed at supplementing .NET framework XML processing functionality. Mvp.Xml Library provides .NET implementations of the EXSLT, XML Base, XInclude, XPointer as well as a unique ...
I found this gem in David Carlisle's blog. Smart Javascript trick allows to mask msxsl:node-set() extension function as exsl:node-set() and so you can easily write crossbrowser XSLT stylesheets using exsl:node-set() functionality. Opera 9, Internet Explorer 6-7 and Firefox 3 are covered, but sadly Firefox 2 is out of the game. Julian ...
Yes, I'm trying to change the way you work with XSLT in Microsoft Visual Studio. It must be a pleasure to develop and rocket fast at runtime. Yes, Visual Studio already supports editing, running and even debugging XSLT, but it's still a painfully limited support. So I'm started building IronXSLT ...
I was reading Scott's post on Reflector Addins and had this idea... Now (well, not now but in the next .NET version - Orcas) that XSLT can be compiled into dll, it must be time to think about XSLT decompiler (and appropriate Reflector addin of course). I believe that must be ...
To be continued... ...
David Carlisle and Jeni Tennison are blogging. Skies are falling. Enough said. Subscribed. ...
I mean pre-XProc XSLT pipeline - just when you need to transform an XML document by a sequence of XSLT stylesheets - output from the first transformation goes as input to the second one and so on. This is useful technique helping dramatically simplify your complex multi-stage XSLT stylesheets. Unfortunately there is no ...
So here is nXSLTC.exe v1.0b - an experimental XSLT compiler for .NET 3.5 (Visual Studio "Orcas"). Get it here (free open-source). I probably shouldn't be building this tool, but I have my reasons. Why not? As a matter of fact, Mike Champion has announced back in February that Microsoft ...
Here is a problem: XSLT 1.0 sucks on generating XML character or entity references. I mean getting &foo; out of XSLT 1.0 is hard. The only ugly solution is disable-output-escaping hack, but it's a) optional, b)doesn't work in all scenarios (only when XSLT engine controls output serialization into bytes and c) works only on ...
I was writing about loading XSLT stylesheets embedded into assemblies (dll or exe) recently and Richard Quinn asked this very legitimate question: But why oh why would anyone embed their XSLT in the assembly? The point is to separate design from logic. Even if the xslt does a non-presentational transform ...
Now it's official, from the Microsoft XML Team: Our users have made it very clear that they want an XSLT 2.0 implementation once the Recommendation is complete. A team of XSLT experts is now in place to do this, the same people who have been working on the XSLT enhancements ...
This was meant to be one big huge milestone. If only it was done 3 years ago. I hope it's not too late though: XQuery, XSLT 2 and XPath 2 Are W3C Recommendations 2007-01-22: The World Wide Web Consortium has published eight new standards in the XML family for data mining, document transformation ...
I just uploaded nxslt v2.1 release. In addition to the nxslt.exe command line tool it now also includes nxslt task implementation for NAnt and MSBuild. ...
I was building NAnt and MSBuild tasks for the nxslt tool last two days and the bottom line of my experience is "previously I thought NAnt sucks, but now I know NAnt is brilliant and it's MSBuild who sucks really big way". My complaints about NAnt were that NAnt being .NET ...
Back in 2005 I was writing about speeding up Muenchian grouping in .NET 1.X. I was comparing three variants of the Muenchian grouping (using generate-id(), count() and set:distinct()). The conclusion was that XslTransform class in .NET 1.X really sucks when grouping using generate-id(), performs better with count() and the best ...
Reporting errors in XSLT stylesheets is a task that almost nobody gets done right. Including me - error reporting in nxslt sucks in a big way. Probably that's because I'm just lazy bastard. But also lets face it - XslCompiledTransform API doesn't help here. Whenever there are XSLT loading (compilation) errors ...
It's surprisingly easy in .NET 2.0. Obviously it can't be done with pure XSLT, but an extension function returning line number for a node takes literally two lines. The trick is to use XPathDocument, not XmlDocument to store source XML to be transformed. The key is IXmlLineInfo interface. Every XPathNavigator over XPathDocument ...
I still own xsl.info and xpath.info domain names and still have no time to build anything around there. If anybody have any ideas about any community driven projects - let me know, I'm willing to donate domain name and may be participate. And if anybody want to buy these domain names ...
Another coding horror story was reported in the microsoft.public.dotnet.xml newsgroup: I've been experiencing OutOfMemory errors on our prodution webserver for a few weeks now. I've finally managed to isolate (I think) the problem to our use of c# script blocks in our xsl files. While debugging I discovered that the app ...
Dimitre Novatchev has uploaded another FXSL 2.0 release. FXSL is the best ever XSLT library: The FXSL functional programming library for XSLT provides XSLT programmers with a powerful reusable set of functions and a way to implement higher-order functions and use functions as first class objects in XSLT . Now ...
Congratulations to all XSLT geeks - Dimitre Novatchev, XSLT extraordinaire is blogging! Whoha! Subscribed. ...
Anton Lapounov is blogging! He's one of the brilliant guys responsible for XSLT in the Microsoft XML Team. If you are subscribed to my blog, you want to subscibe to "Anton Lapounov: XML XSLT and Beyond" blog too. ...
How would you validate XSLT output on the fly without caching transformation result as a whole? That's easy - just use MvpXslTransform class that adds to the XslCompiledTransform class ability to transform into XmlReader and wrap that reader witth a validating reader. As a result - streaming validation, no memory ...
W3C has released fresh versions of the Candidate Recommendations of XML Query 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. No big deal changes - xdt:* types has been moved to xs:* namespace (damn XML Schema). See new XQuery1/XPath2 type system below. Looks like XSLT2/XPath2/XQuery1 are moving fast toward Proposed ...
I really enjoy seeing Michael Kay talking about working with XML in .NET. That makes me feel I might be not a freak after all. ...
Martin Szugat, .NET and XML expert from Germany has published an article about using my eXml Web server control in ASP.NET 2.0. The article was published in the German dot.net magazin and now it also went online in the German MSDN: "Von der Quelle zum Kunden. Anzeige von XML-Daten auf ...
XslCompiledTransform provides amazing transformation performance, but obviously not without a price. As with any compiling system the price is slower and quite resource consuming compilation stage. That's why it's very important to cache loaded XslCompiledTransform instance to avoid paying compilation price over again. One question that comes sometimes while implementing ...
Well, "XSLT 2.0 in .NET" survey at the XML Lab site has ended back in January and I forgot to select a winner. Ooops. Let's finish this now. I obviously made a mistake requiring user registration for voting, but then I needed some way to identify a winner... Anyway, 40 ...
Ok, I'm back. I have updated eXml Web Server Control, which uses XslCompiledTransform, supports 70+ EXSLT functions, XInclude, friendly XML rendering, <?xml-stylesheet?>, embedded stylesheets etc.Martin Szugat found some bugs and kindly provided patches, thanks Martin! Additionally I implemented one small but useful feature users kept asking for - cache dependencies ...
"XSLT 2.0 in .NET" survey at the XML Lab site ends in a week.Vote now and get a chance to win the "XSLT 2.0" book by Mike Kay!When the survey ends one lucky survey taker from whatever part of the world choosen randomly will get the book. Note: you ...
Now that XslCompiledTransform in .NET 2.0 supports exsl:object-type() extension function I think a little intro is needed as this is really new function for Microsoft-oriented XSLT developers. ...
Sometimes it's useful to detect which XSLT engine your XSLT stylersheet is being executed by, e.g. to shortcut processing using an engine-specific extension function or to workaround a bug in particlular engine. Now that Microsoft alone ships 3 different XSLT engines - MSXML3/MSXML4/MSXML5/MSXML6, XslTransform and XslCompiledTransform, detecting XSLT engine from ...
There are two new killer but undocumented features in Microsoft .NET 2.0 pertaining to EXSLT. Anybody like me regularly digging in System.Xml assembly probably knows it, but general audience is still unaware. So I want to share these secrets. ...
You say you know XSLT well? Try answer this quiz of XSLT 1.0 oddities by James Fuller. ...
Almost 2 years ago I published a post "Transforming WordML to HTML: Support for Images" showing how to hack Microsoft WordML2HTML stylesheet to support images. People kept telling me it doesn't support some weird image formats or header images. Moreover I realized it has a bug and didn't work with ...
Slowly, gradually and with not much loud buzz both modern managed platforms - Java and .NET have switched to compiling XSLT implementations by default. First Java 5.0 made compiling Apache XSLTC processor a default transformer in JAXP 1.3 (instead of interpreting Apache XALAN). Then Microsoft released .NET 2.0 with new ...
In the latest article "Schema-Aware Queries and Stylesheets" Michael Kay explaines how useful XML Schema-awareness is for XQuery queries and XSLT stylesheets. ...
Miloslav Nic has announced the first snapshot of XSLT 2.0 tutorial at Zvon. Good stuff. I remember 5 year ago I was learning XSLT 1.0 using Zvon's tutorial... ...
Dare thinks I'm making fruitless noise asking people if they need XSLT 2.0: I'm not sure how an informal survey in a blog would convince Microsoft one way or the other about implementing a technology. A business case to convince a product team to do something usually involves showing them ...
I run into this article "Harnessing the BackPack API" by Michael K. Campbell in the new and very cool "XML 4 Fun" column at MSDN. The article is otherwise brilliant and really fun, but XML processing code samples are not so good. It's actually a great collection of XML processing ...
Moving along business cases Microsoft seeks to implement XSLT 2.0 I'm trying to gather some opinion statistics amongs developers working with XML and XSLT. So I'm holding this survey at the XML Lab site: Would you like to have XSLT 2.0 implementation in the .NET Framework? The possible answers are ...
I'm glad to announce first release of the eXml - extended ASP.NET Xml Web Server Control. eXml is a free open-source ASP.NET 2.0 Web server control extending and improving standard ASP.NET XML Web server control. eXml Web server control uses new .NET 2.0 XSLT processor - XslCompiledTransform class to perform ...
If you are using XSLT and you think that XSLT 2.0 would provide you some real benefits, please drop a line of comment with a short explanation pleeeease. I'm collecting some arguments for XSLT 2.0, some real world scenarios that are hard with XSLT 1.0, some business cases when XSLT ...
nxslt v2.0 (aka nxslt2) is available for download. This is first nxslt release for .NET 2.0. nxslt is a free feature-rich command line utility that allows to perform XSL Transformations (XSLT) using .NET Framework 2.0 XSLT implementation - System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform class. nxslt is compatible with Microsoft's MSXSL.EXE tool and additionally supports ...
So Dimitre Novatchev invited me and I joined the FXSL (Functional Programming Library for XSLT) project. The FXSL functional programming library for XSLT provides XSLT programmers with a powerful reusable set of functions and a way to implement higher-order functions and use functions as first class objects in XSLT. I ...
That's a big milestone in a 6-years-going-so-far design-by-committee experiment: XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 are finally W3C Candidate Recommendations. That means that W3C now officially calls for implementations (which shows another weirdness of the design-by-committee process as XQuery alone has about 40 implementations already as per Ken North ...
There is a known problem with new XSLT processor in just released Microsoft .NET 2.0 - XslCompiledTransform class doesn't support pull mode XSLT - outputting XSLT result in XmlReader form as obsolete XslTransform class did. I'm happy to announce that the problem is solved now. Sergey Dubinets from the Microsoft ...
Another minor nxslt release is available - v1.6.4. This version adds support for the "extension-element-prefixes" attribute and fixes a glitch in transformation timings reporting. What's the problem with "extension-element-prefixes" attribute? When using <exsl:document> extension element to produce multiple outputs some EXSLT-aware XSLT tools (like 4XSLT) rightly require "exsl" prefix to ...
Opera 9.0 Preview 1 released October 20 finally adds support for XSLT and XPath to the Opera browser. Finally they are awake. Good move, but it might be too late for the Opera. [Via <XSLT:Blog/>] ...
nxslt 1.6.1 is available for download at the xmllab.net. This is bug fix only release. Marc Stober reported that when running into XInclude error he got MissingManifestResourceException. Apparently XInclude string resources weren't compiled into the nxslt.exe. This release fixes this bug. Thanks for reporting, Marc! nxslt is free feature-rich command ...
Jeni Tennison has announced an utility for unit-testing XSLT stylesheets: I've just developed a set of stylesheets that are designed to support unit testing of XSLT stylesheets. You embed tests in the stylesheet and can run a script (or configure your editing environment) to extract and run them and create ...
Michael Kay has released Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor v8.5. This new release implements some very interesting optimizations (available only in commercial version though) and new abilities, one of which is probably worth to implement in EXSLT.NET module. ...
Colin Paul Adams has announced Gobo Eiffel XSLT - free XSLT 2.0 processor written in Eiffel. Gexslt is intended to conform to a Basic-level XSLT 2.0 Processor and currently is still under development. Win32 compiled version can be downloaded at http://www.gobosoft.com/download/gobo34.zip. ...
nxslt 1.6 and nxslt2 Beta1 are available for download. For those not familiar with nxslt: nxslt is free feature-rich .NET XSLT Command Line Utility. nxslt 1.6 is the next version for the .NET 1.X Frameworks. New features include optionality for source XML or stylesheet, pretty printing, ASCII only escaped output ...
I know I'm late, but anyway here is the latest Dimitre's puzzle. Don't post your anwers here, just send them him to dnovatchev AT gmail DOT com. Dimitre will be collecting answers only for another week, so hurry up. I just started reading the book "The Da Vinci code" and ...
Just look here. AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. Because XSL-T uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSL-T. That's weird. Wait, all modern browsers ...
It's official now - we (XML MVPs) agreed and Dare (as EXSLT.NET project owner) has approved an integration of the EXSLT.NET project into the Mvp.Xml library. All EXSLT.NET project contributors may ask to be added as developers to the Mvp.Xml project. I will be moving code soon, as well as ...
Microsoft's XML Team is asking you: XSLT 2.0 - 1. Do we need to support XSLT 2.0 ? 2. What are the most useful features of XSLT 2.0 that you would like to see implemented? (like grouping , support for datetime etc) 3. Do you believe support for the entire ...
Some users report that after installing Netscape 8 Internet Explorer and other IE-based browsers usch as Avant browser stop applying XSLT stylesheets, even the default stylesheet used to render XML documents. That probably has something to do with "Firefox or IE6 rendering" feature in Netscape. Beware. If you do make ...
Sadly but fact, .NET 1.X XSLT processor - XslTransform class has some nasty bugs. Actually it even can't load Docbook stylesheets :( So it was really nice to see Altsoft (maker of Xml2PDF tool) has adapted Docbook 1.68.1 stylesheets to make them working in .NET. Changes are really small. ...
As many were saying, XSLT is finally coming to client side. The rumors came true today - latest version of the Safari browser from Apple supports XSLT via libxslt. Now what about Opera? [Via Cafe con Leche] ...
As usually very long post (an article actually) by Kurt Cagle on "The Business Case for XSLT 2.0". Explains why XSLT 2.0 is good and why Microsoft should implement it. With Michael Champion's comments, worth reading. ...
This is amazing. Adam Kinney (Xamlon guy) runs his new blogsite on XSLT 2.0 (using Saxon.NET as XSLT engine): Adam Kinney.com has been redesigned, restructured and refactored. The new site has been inspired by my hate fo comment spam, interest in XSLT 2.0, desire to lose SQL and move to ...
Here is a really nice wrap up by Mike Kay on what benefits XSLT gets from using XML syntax: I think the benefits are: (a) many stylesheets consist of two-thirds data to be copied into the result tree, and one-third instructions to extract data from the source document. An XML-based ...
m.david starts his new project on Monday - sort of community XSLT learning using wonderful "Beginning XSLT" book by Jeni Tennison Anyone and everyone is welcome to join in this effort to become better XSLT programmers. While I intend to do all I can to keep things moving forward throughout ...
As another non-obvious outcome of the recent browser war wave and the raise of Firefox browser is growing appreciation of XSLT as a useful client-side Web technology. That "An Introduction to Client-Side XSLT: It's Not Just for Server Geeks Anymore" article at digital-web.com is making me believe XSLT is finally ...
Wow, I've heard about some hardware XML routers, but today I saw an ad banner about hardware XSLT accelerator. Holy cow! Here is some marketing blah-bkah-blah: Standards based XSLT processing is computationally intensive - it overburdens the server infrastructure resulting in poor user experience, high server infrastructure costs and scalability ...
M. David Peterson, coordinator of the x2x2x.org community open-source project (known by the Saxon.NET, AspectXML, and xameleon projects) started a blog at xsltblog.com. The blog's description is "An ongoing weblog of current topics from the XSLT development community & other XML/XSLT related news items. Hosted, maintained, & edited by M ...
I missed that point somehow: The trouble is that XSLT allows regions of a stylesheet to belong to different versions. In XSLT 1.0, you can put an xsl:version attribute on any literal result element to indicate the version of XSLT used in the content of that element. In XSLT 2.0 ...
Steve Ball announced XSLT Standard Library version 1.2.1 - an open source, pure XSLT (extensions free) collection of commonly-used templates. New stuff includes new SVG and comparison modules and new functions in string, date-time and math modules. ...
Interesting post by Michael Kay on detecting cycles in graphs using XSLT and XQuery: > I have XML data in the form of a graph (nodes, edges) and I > need to check if > any cycles exist in the data before I join the data together > in one ...
Things turn slowly nowadays. Michael Kay on XSLT 2.0 perspectives: We're going to have to have a second Last Call because of the number of comments received. You can't do a Last Call in much less than four months. The CR phase these days for a complex spec is rarely ...
Rick Jelliffe writes: Perhaps some tricky implementation of XSLT could figure out if a stylesheet is streamable and switch to a streaming strategy. That would be rather effective optimization indeed. But how that could be implemented in XSLT/XQuery processor? Obviously full-blown stylesheet analysis would be feasible only having schema information ...
Here is interesting paper "XSLT and XPath Optimization" by Michael Kay. That's materials of Michael's talk at recent XML Europe conference. In this paper Michael reveals details of the XSLT and XPath optimizations performed internally by SAXON (XSLT and XQuery processor): This paper describes the main techniques used by the ...
That's a milestone in XSLT technology life - the most famous Java XSLT processor Saxon goes commercial. Here is what Michael Kay (author of Saxon and XSLT 2.0 editor) writes: In March 2004 I founded Saxonica Limited to provide ongoing development and support of Saxon as a commercial venture. My ...
I've released nxslt.exe utility version 1.4. It's maintenance release. Changes are: Updated to EXSLT.NET 1.0.1. Updated to XInclude.NET 1.2. Updated project to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 (so now nxslt.exe can be built directly from VS.NET, no need to run nmake manually - EXSLT methods renaming such as nodeSet() to ...
Everybody knows grouping in XSLT is kinda advanced topic. Muenchian method is just a nightmare for XSLT newbies and XSLT-related newsgroups are full of help-me-to-group-in-xsl postings. Well, and I and fellows do answer such questions day afer day. Should admit that's a way booooring. Now I wonder why we don't ...
Interesting article about incremental XSLT. I only wish it comes true some day. ...
I've got an invitation from Mono guys to consider contributing to Mono Managed XSLT Processor implemenation (now they have only a wrapper around libxslt engine). Well, we at Multiconn have designed and built one XSLT processor couple of years ago (it's quite specialized and highly (may be even too) optimized ...
Dare has published a new cool article at his MSDN Extreme XML column: "EXSLT: Enhancing the Power of XSLT". It's about Dare's implementation of 60+ EXSLT functions for .NET XSLT processor. Kudos! That was a pile of work due to number of functions, I'm sure the community will appreciate Dare's ...
New XSLT 2.0 Working Draft has been published. Interesting changes since November 2002 version: A new bunch of date/time formatting functions. "It is now a static error for xsl:call-template to supply a parameter whose name does not match the name of any parameter declared in the called template.". Wow ...
Kirk Allen Evans has posted a recursive XSLT template to transform CSV into XML. Being low-level substring functions based it's obviously quite verbose and convolute, what was fairly enough pointed out by Dare. He has provided 10-lines C# version also. What I wanted to add to this subject is that ...
Oracle XDK v10 Beta Release supports XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (all working drafts dated 11th November 2002). It's not clear to which extent all that jazz is supported, but anyway, that's good news. And AFAIK Apache guys at Xalan team are working on Xalan 3.0 ...
I have released nxslt version 1.1. nxslt is .NET XSLT command line utility, written in C#. Timings are now more accurate, I'm using System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter class now. Two new features: custom URI resolver and multiple output. First one is trivial - it's now possible to provide a resolver class name to ...