LotusXSL XSLT Processor

1. XSL, XSLT & XPath

XSL is a language for expressing stylesheets and other types of transformations. It consists of two parts:

1. XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into HTML, XML, Text, or other type of document. It is composed of the XML XSLT vocabulary, and XPath, a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer.
2. An XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics (called Formatting Objects).

LotusXSL implements at this time only the first part of XSL, the W3C Working Draft 13 August 1999 XSL Transformations (XSLT).

An XSLT stylesheet specifies the transformation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into another XML tree of nodes.

2. LotusXSL Features

• Implements the W3C Working Draft 13 August 1999 XSL Transformations (XSLT).
• Uses Version 2.0.15 (preferred) or 1.1.16 of IBM's XML for Java.
• Can interface to any Java DOM Tree producing processor.
• Can output to SAX or DOM.
• Includes applet and servlet wrappers.
• API for XML queries.
• Multiple Document Output.
• Extensible Architecture.
• Java and JavaScript support via BSF.

3. LotusXSL Documentation

• Version Documentation.
• API Documentation.
• API Overview.
• XQuery Overview.

4. Installation

You need to run the following command to extract the files

tar xvf lotusxsl_0_18_1.tar

These commands create a lotusxsl_0_18_1 sub-directory in the current directory containing all the files.

5. Contact Info and Bug Reports

1. Contact information for LotusXSL: Scott Boag