Xalan is a popular
open source
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software library
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from the
Apache Software Foundation, that implements the
XSLT
XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text or XSL Formatting Objects, which may subse ...
1.0
XML
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transformation language and the
XPath
XPath (XML Path Language) is an expression language designed to support the query or transformation of XML documents. It was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and can be used to compute values (e.g., strings, numbers, or Boolean v ...
1.0 language. The Xalan XSLT processor is available for both the
Java
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and
C++ programming language
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s. It combines technology from two main sources: an XSLT processor originally created by
IBM under the name LotusXSL, and an XSLT compiler created by
Sun Microsystems
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under the name XSLTC. A wrapper for the Eiffel language is available.
See also
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Java XML
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Apache Xerces
In computing, Xerces is Apache Software Foundation, Apache's collection of software library, software libraries for parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating XML. The library implements a number of standard Application programming interface ...
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libxml2
libxml2 is a software library for parsing XML documents. It is also the basis for the libxslt library which processes XSLT-1.0 stylesheets.
Description
Written in the C programming language, libxml2 provides bindings to C++, Ch, XSH, C#, ...
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Saxon XSLT Saxon is an XSLT and XQuery processor created by Michael Kay and now developed and maintained by his company, Saxonica. There are open-source and also closed-source commercial versions. Versions exist for Java, JavaScript and .NET.
The current ...
References
External links
Xalan Home page
Xalan
Xalan is a popular open source software library from the Apache Software Foundation, that implements the XSLT 1.0 XML transformation language and the XPath 1.0 language. The Xalan XSLT processor is available for both the Java and C++ programm ...
Java (programming language) libraries
Java platform
Software using the Apache license
XSLT processors
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