NAME

WebSource::Extract::xslt - Apply an XSL Stylesheet to the input

DESCRIPTION

This flavor of the Extract operator applies an XSL stylesheet to the input an returns the transformation result.

Such an extraction operator should be described as follows :

  <ws:extract type="xslt" name="opname" forward-to="ops">
    <xsl:stylesheet>
    ...
    </xsl:stylesheet>
  </ws:extract>
  
  where the xsl prefix should be associated to the URI http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform

SYNOPSIS

METHODS

XSLT EXTENSIONS

The module implements extra pratical XSLT extension functions These can be used by delaring a prefix for theses extensions whose namespace is http://wwwsource.free.fr/ns/websource/xslt-ext and declaring that this prefix is an extension prefix. For example:

  <xsl:stylesheet
      xmlns:wsx="http://wwwsource.free.fr/ns/websource/xslt-ext"
      extension-element-prefixes="wsx"
  >
    ...
  </xsl:stylesheet>

reformat-date

Extension function to reformat dates {http://wwwsource.free.fr/ns/websource/xslt-ext}reformat-date( date, targetTemplate, sourceLanguage? )

string-replace

Extension function to do a string replacement using a perl regular expression {http://wwwsource.free.fr/ns/websource/xslt-ext}string-replace(regexp, replacement, data)

parse-encoded

Extension function parse-encoded which parses an encoded XML string an returns a cleaned-up version {http://wwwsource.free.fr/ns/websource/xslt-ext}html-lint

SEE ALSO

WebSource