Possible to use embedded stylesheet in Transformation Scenario?

[RBVanDyke]

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This is a "just curious" question inspired by a textbook example, not a real work problem.

The book provides the following XML as an illustration of an embedded stylesheet, id="petstyle":

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="#petstyle"?>

<!DOCTYPE pets [<!ATTLIST xsl:stylesheet id ID #IMPLIED>]>



<pets>

  <pet type="cat">Max</pet>

  <pet type="parrot">Peter <color>red</color>

  </pet>



  <xsl:stylesheet id="petstyle" version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">



    <xsl:template match="xsl:stylesheet"/>



    <xsl:template match="pets"> My pets: <xsl:apply-templates/>

    </xsl:template>



    <xsl:template match="pet">

      <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>

    </xsl:template>



  </xsl:stylesheet>

</pets>

Is it possible to configure an oXygen 17 Transformation Scenario to use this?

As I said, I'm merely curious. I only today learned how to configure a Transformation Scenario to use a linked stylesheet. Now I'm figuring out how to use an embedded stylesheet should the need arise (highly improbable it ever will, I think)...

Cheers & thanks,
Riley
SFO

[adrian]

Hi,

Is it possible to configure an oXygen 17 Transformation Scenario to use this?

Possible, yes. But not in a comfortable way.
Xalan (XSLT 1.0) seems to accept embedded XSL, but Oxygen won't recognize the anchor in the href from the xml-stylesheet declaration, so you can't make use of the Use "xml-stylesheet" declaration option. You can create a scenario (XML transformation with XSLT), select Xalan from the Transformer combo and use in the XSL URL field:

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${currentFileURL}#petstyle

TBH, it makes more sense to go the other way and just include the XML content within the XSL.

Regards,
Adrian

[RBVanDyke]

Thanks Adrian for taking the time to respond with that excellent answer!

Cheers,
Riley
SFO