To perform a transformation, you can call Xalan-Java from the command line (or script),
an applet, an application, or a servlet (see Usage Patterns).
The org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process main() method provides a command-line interface
for performing XSL transformation. To perform a transformation from the command line or a script,
do the following:
- Download Xalan-Java.
- Set the java class path to include xalan.jar and xerces.jar
- Call java and the Process class with the appropriate flags and
arguments (described below). The following command line, for example, includes the -IN, -XSL,
and -OUT flags with their accompanying arguments -- the XML source document, the XSL
stylesheet, and the output file:
java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN foo.xml -XSL foo.xsl -OUT foo.out
The command line utility can take the following flags and arguments (the flags are case insensitive):
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| -IN inputXMLURL
-XSL XSLTransformationURL
-OUT outputFileName
-V (Version info)
-QC (Quiet Pattern Conflicts Warnings)
-Q (Quiet Mode)
-LF (Use linefeeds only on output -- default is CR/LF)
-CR (Use carriage returns only on output -- default is CR/LF)
-TT (Trace the templates as they are being called)
-TG (Trace each result tree generation event)
-TS (Trace each selection event)
-TTC (Trace the template children as they are being processed)
-VALIDATE (Validate the XML and XSL input -- validation is off by default)
-EDUMP [optional]FileName (Do stackdump on error)
-XML (Use XML formatter and add XML header)
-TEXT (Use simple Text formatter)
-HTML (Use HTML formatter)
-PARAM name expression (Set a stylesheet parameter) | |
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Use -IN to specify the XML source document.
Use -XSL to specify the XSL stylesheet file.
Use -OUT to specify the output file. If you omit this flag and argument, the processor prints the output to the
screen.
Use -TEXT if you want the output to include only element values (not element tags with element names and
attributes).
Use -HTML to write 4.0 transitional HTML (some elements, such as <br>, are
not well formed XML.
To set stylesheet parameters from the command line, use
TestXSLT -PARAM name expression
To set the parameter to a string value, enclose the string in single quotes (') to
make it an expression.
