XML XSL Plugin

Introduction

The plugin is used to return HTML containing an XML data island which, when processed by the browser, will show the XSL applied to the XML.

Unlike the TWiki:Plugins.SablotronPlugin which does the transformation at the server, the XmlXslPlugin does the transformation on the browser.

Syntax Rules

This has one directives to invoke this plugin.

• %XMLXSLTRANSFORM{...}%

The xml source, xsl source, and css source parameters may be TWiki topic names or urls.

Plugin Settings

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Return HTML created from the application of an XSL to some XML

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this Plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip XmlXslPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/XmlXslPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/XmlXslPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module

• Run the configure script to enable the plugin

Plugin Info

Plugin Author:	TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver and friends
Copyright:	© 2001 TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver © 2007-2011 TWiki:TWiki.TWikiContributor
License:	GPL (GNU General Public License)
Plugin Version:	2011-02-01
Change History:
2011-02-01:	TWikibug:Item6638: Doc improvements; XHTML fixes; changing TWIKIWEB to SYSTEMWEB -- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
2005-03-30:	Removed the restriction that only one transformation could be included in a topic. Added css style sheet parameter. Made parameters follow TWiki conventions. -- TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert
2001-10-26:	Initial release -- TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver
CPAN Dependencies:	none
Other Dependencies:	a browser that supports XML transformations/processing
Perl Version:	5.0
Benchmarks:	GoodStyle nn%, FormattedSearch nn%, XmlXslPlugin nn%
Plugin Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/XmlXslPlugin
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/XmlXslPluginDev
Appraisal:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/XmlXslPluginAppraisal

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins