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How to convert XML to something else using xslt stylesheet?

In C++ C# PHP or ActionScript?

For example I have this html2wiki xslt stylesheet I want to send to my programm my XML (in this case HTML file ) and get back a file (in this case Wiki mark up text )

So How to translate one text file into another text file using XSLT stylesheet in any language?

Rella
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  • if I'm not mistaken, you've been inspired by my answer to your previous question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2162386/is-there-any-html-to-wikitext-translator/2162443#2162443 . It would have been nice to vote for it. – Pierre Jan 29 '10 at 16:09

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In Python, libxml and libxslt are my personal choices for this kind of functionality.

(Edit) Here is a simple example of performing a transformation using libxml and libxslt:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import libxml2
import libxslt


def getXSLT(xsl_filename):
    # parse the stylesheet xml file into doc object
    styledoc = libxml2.parseFile(xsl_filename)

    # process the doc object as xslt
    style = libxslt.parseStylesheetDoc(styledoc)

    return style


if __name__ == '__main__':
    style = getXSLT("stylesheet.xsl")
    doc = libxml2.parseFile("data.xml")
    result = style.applyStylesheet(doc, None)

    print result
AJ.
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Pseudocode:

Load SOURCE file as XML
Load STYLESHEET file as XML
Apply STYLESHEET to SOURCE, generating RESULT
Write RESULT out to file as XML
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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  • Yeah, I mean each language provides different methods - but the above pseudocode is correct. – mr-sk Jan 29 '10 at 15:47
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here is an example using C and libxslt: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/tutorial/libxslttutorial.html

Pierre
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In .NET, you may want to look at this article. In C++, you can use Xalan-C++. Xalan-C++ even has some handy examples of how to use it.

Hank Gay
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in PHP take a look at this

DomXsltStylesheet->process
and also read the last note at the bottom which has a working example ...

Gabriele Petrioli
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W3Schools has my favorite XSLT tutorial ..

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

Good luck!

Wes Floyd
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The correct library in Python now is lxml. Please see this answer on StackOverflow. It is similar syntax, and you wont have issues in installing it.

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Ash
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