Events • Oxygen Users Meetup - Washington DC area 2017

Using SaxonEE in oXygen, you can compile your XSLT stylesheets and deliver them over the net for execution by SaxonJS (a Javascript library available from Saxonica) in a Javascript-capable web browser. An XML-based application can be delivered within a small, configurable HTML wrapper, which calls the scripts and identifies the source file and (compiled) stylesheet. The compiler supports XSLT 2.0 with a useful subset of proposed XSLT 3.0 features.

But SaxonJS offers more than XSLT 2.0 in the browser: it is able to bind XSLT processing to nodes and events in the DOM. This makes it possible to program interactivity in display, all with XSLT -- no Javascript. If you know XSLT but have never enjoyed shifting gears to Javascript, pushing the boundaries of behavior in the web browser becomes fun and easy.

A few small applications will be demonstrated. To make it easier to try yourself, a set of XSLT stylesheets to produce standalone XML, a pre-coded shell HTML page, and an XSLT 3.0 "starter" stylesheet ready to compile and run under SaxonJS (and further enhance), will be offered on GitHub.