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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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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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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
Background 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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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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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 XML: ...
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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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Making a flat file
Source XML (since I haven't bothered with a schema): ...
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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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