Questions tagged [xslt]
XSLT is a transformation language for XML. Its primary function is to transform XML documents into different output formats, commonly other XML, HTML or plain text.
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Python script to renumber slide ids inside a pptx presentation
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I have never had the patience or the free time to really read a python book from cover to cover. I just starting coding, looking up things and pasting stuff. That was ok because I was the sole ...
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Extracting information from HTML with XSLT 3.0 when data is grouped visually as siblings in a td separated by blank lines
I have a work-in-progress where I'm using XSLT 3 to extract information from some preprocessed archaic HTML. I'd like to produce JSON showing the relationships between the various entities for further ...
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Using XSLT 3.0 to extract information from real-world HTML and produce JSON
For work, I extract information from HTML and XML sources to save in databases. The objective is to generate JSON representing the source document's information and its relationships in order to 1) ...
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Enumerating ancestors in XSLT
I've been playing with some genealogical files in XML lately and wanted to create a transform that would list, for each person, the person's name, the count of ancestors, and the list of ancestors. ...
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XSLT find duplicate records
This transform is designed to look at a set of 50k-100k employee records and produce a CSV file of anyone who has the same type of benefit enrollment more than once. Each employee may or may not have ...
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Converting a source XML to a target desired XML format
I have been able to create an XSLT (included) to convert a source XML to a target desired XML format (included). However, I am sure this can be optimized leveraging some built in XSLT capabilities ...
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Extracting the first two initials of a person's name
I've come up with a hackish approach to get my XSL function to only return the first 2 initials of a person. I think there should be a more efficient way to do this though. The ...
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Apply classes to selected XHTML elements based on content
I wish to take an XHTML source document (e.g. demo.in.xhtml below) and add class attributes to every td element whose content is ...
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Transforming XML to HTML with XSLT
I'm still learning from designing with types non strings by Scott Wlaschin.
For my project I transform some XML to HTML with xslt.
Because every filename can have side effects, they are stored in ...
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XSL template for converting XML to JSON
I used saxon v9 to profile an XSL transformation which converts XML to JSON. The profiler tells me that the function which escapes certain characters takes about 70% of the total processing time. The ...
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Camel Case strings in XSLT
I have a situation where I am receiving data from a web service and the data is in all caps. I have to convert to HTML and format for display. In this case, we need the string to be normalized. The ...
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Validate XML using XSD, a Catalog Resolver, and JAXP DOM for XSLT
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As this related question describes, there does not appear to be a canonical way to validate XML files against an XSD then subsequently transform them using an XSL template with file paths ...
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Capitalize words in XSLT 1.0
Since XSLT 1.0 doesn't have a lot of convenience functions, I have had to cobble them myself. The below capitalizes "words" in a string as defined by a string of delimiters. Is there any way to ...
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Calculation of trigonometric sine function
I'm creating a client-side pie chart in XSLT 1.0, without extensions or external dependencies (i.e., cannot use FXSLT, EXSLT, JavaScript, etc.).
The code is slow; at least fifteen iterations are ...
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XSLT 2.0: Crawl HTML and add links
Background: I have 4 GB of text data dispersed in 250,000 html files. I want to interlink the files with <a> for the reader to click on. I have a 12 MB file ...
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Conditional assignment in XSLT?
I've written some XSLT where I want to assign values to some variables.
Depending on whether or not a condition is met, I want the variable to be populated with a computed value and I want it to have ...
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Cross-language constants
I'm developing a web application that leverages multiple programming languages. The data flow resembles:
Browser » PHP » PL/SQL » XML » XSLT » XHTML + JavaScript » Browser
Using different languages ...
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Appendix answer key template
Goal:
Extract all Appendix Titles
If Appendix Title is Answer Key call custom solutions template
If Not Answer Key call default appendix template
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Transforming XML as it is being generated on a scanner
At work I've recently been tasked with creating an XSLT to transform some XML as it is being generated on a scanner. The point being to disregard some pages that we are not interested in for further ...
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How can I optimize my XSL file?
I am trying to learn to format XSL more efficiently. I can tell by the definition of duplicate variables and nearly identical templates that I did not create this efficiently at all. How could I ...
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Using Choose and Apply Templates with Mode, vs Complexless Template Matches
So I have a little XML (Sub)language,
it has 3 elements of interest: para, point, and code
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XML Schema for an XML representation of CSV
This is intended to be part of a generalised solution to the problem of converting any (with some minor restrictions) CSV content into XML. The restrictions on the CSV, and the purpose of the schema ...
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Controls to dump key/value pairs
Are there alternative (better) ways to factor out the common parts other than my use of abstract base class? I find myself following this pattern lately and it makes sense when I code it but ...
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Using XSLT to turn content of WYSIWYG stored in XML into HTML
The CMS I use uses the Xalan XSLT processor which is a XSLT version 1.0 processor. Editors who use WYSIWYG fields within the CMS can save content that will look like either:
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