BaseX: where to declare the XML document on which the query is made
With BaseX program I was able to use XPath and XQuery to query an XML document located in my home directory, but I have a problem with the same in XSLT.
The document I'm requesting is BookstoreQ.xml .
XPath version working completely fine:
doc("/home/ioannis/Desktop/BookstoreQ.xml")/Bookstore/Book/Title
The XSLT code I want to execute:
<xsl:stylesheet version = "2.0" xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method= "xml" indent = "yes" omit-xml-declaration = "yes" />
<xsl:template match = "Book"></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I read the BaseX XSLT documentation but couldn't find a solution. How can I run a given XSLT?
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BaseX has no direct support for XSLT, you have to call it using XQuery functions (which is easy, though). There are two functions for this, one for returning XML nodes ( xslt:transform(...)
), one for returning text as a string ( xslt:transform-text(...)
). You need a second one.
xslt:transform-text(doc("/home/ioannis/Desktop/BookstoreQ.xml"),
<xsl:stylesheet version = "2.0" xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method= "xml" indent = "yes" omit-xml-declaration = "yes" />
<xsl:template match = "Book"></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
)
Both can be called using XSLT as nodes (used here) by passing it as a string or by specifying the path to a file containing the XSLT code.
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