How to convert XML to something else using xslt stylesheet?
In C++ C# PHP or ActionScript?
For example I have this html2wiki xslt stylesheet I want to send to my programm my XML (in this case HTML file ) and get back a file (in this case Wiki mark up text )
So How to translate one text file into another text file using XSLT stylesheet in any language?
In Python, libxml and libxslt are my personal choices for this kind of functionality.
(Edit) Here is a simple example of performing a transformation using libxml and libxslt:
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import libxml2
import libxslt
def getXSLT(xsl_filename):
# parse the stylesheet xml file into doc object
styledoc = libxml2.parseFile(xsl_filename)
# process the doc object as xslt
style = libxslt.parseStylesheetDoc(styledoc)
return style
if __name__ == '__main__':
style = getXSLT("stylesheet.xsl")
doc = libxml2.parseFile("data.xml")
result = style.applyStylesheet(doc, None)
print result
Pseudocode:
Load SOURCE file as XML
Load STYLESHEET file as XML
Apply STYLESHEET to SOURCE, generating RESULT
Write RESULT out to file as XML
here is an example using C and libxslt: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/tutorial/libxslttutorial.html
In .NET, you may want to look at this article. In C++, you can use Xalan-C++. Xalan-C++ even has some handy examples of how to use it.
in PHP take a look at this
DomXsltStylesheet->process
and also read the last note at the bottom which has a working example ...
The correct library in Python now is lxml. Please see this answer on StackOverflow.
It is similar syntax, and you wont have issues in installing it.
