XML XSL Plugin

Introduction

The plugin is used to return HTML containing an XML data island which, when processed by the browser, will show the XSL applied to the XML.

Unlike the TWiki:Plugins.SablotronPlugin which does the transformation at the server, the XmlXslPlugin does the transformation on the browser.

Syntax Rules

This has one directives to invoke this plugin.

• %XMLXSLTRANSFORM{...}%

The xml source, xsl source, and css source parameters may be TWiki topic names or urls.

Plugin Settings

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Return HTML created from the application of an XSL to some XML

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this Plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip XmlXslPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/XmlXslPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/XmlXslPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module

• Run the configure script to enable the plugin

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins