XSLT 2.0 transformation via linux shell

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I want to perform an XSLT 2.0 transformation by the use of command line executions. I heard that i could use the Saxon library by a shell command like:

java -jar sax.jar -input foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -output bar.xml

Does anyone know how exactly I can achieve that goal?

By the way, i am not limited to Java. Any other shell solution is fine.

Be aware that a Sax parser does not perform XSLT. Sax parser parse XML in a stream and fire events. Saxon is an XSLT processor. Most of the time a XSLT processor does not stream. Saxon (in his commercial version) has streaming capabilities with the latest instructions provided by XSLT 3.0. — Vincent Biragnet, Dec 16 '11 at 16:23

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 21 '22 at 14:55

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The documentation of Saxon is online: http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/#!using-xsl/commandline. So you need:

java -jar saxon9he.jar -xsl:foo.xsl -s:foo.xml -o:bar.xml

edited Jul 21 '22 at 14:55

Sergey Vyacheslavovich Brunov

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answered Dec 16 '11 at 15:04

Martin Honnen

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thanks alot. i also found this: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man1/saxonb-xslt.1.html is that good too or what would you prefer? – Alp Dec 16 '11 at 15:44
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The version of Saxon shipped with your Ubuntu distribution is probably rather old. It's probably better to download the most recent version (though if you're a beginner you probably won't notice much difference). – Michael Kay Dec 16 '11 at 23:02

akostadinov · Answer 2 · 2021-05-04T17:20:24.797

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Update: check solution 2 and 3 if your java is version 11 or later, where .internal. are not available anymore.

I just wrote this bash script to use com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.cmdline classes for transforming XML. Works with openjdk just fine. Not a solution for production use cases but handy for debugging.

P.S. took the idea from this blog

SOLUTION 2: use xalan command line
SOLUTION 3: https://github.com/physikerwelt/xstlprocJ

edited May 04 '21 at 17:20

answered Oct 05 '12 at 12:32

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It seems, like all `.internal.` stuff, it goes away after some time... So your bash script ends up with ClassNotFoundException with JDK 11 – Ondra Žižka May 04 '21 at 11:12
@OndraŽižka, you are right. I've updated answer with another solution. Do you think Java stopped to embed XSLT or rather we have no way to access it anymore? – akostadinov May 04 '21 at 17:23

XSLT 2.0 transformation via linux shell

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