Have you ever been working with XSLT transformations? Well I have been and I was not able to find an easy way to test my XSLT transformations. Of course you can write a couple of JAVA classes performing the transformation, but if you are having a lazy day and you do not feel like writing java code you can simply download and install the Orangevolt XSLT plugin for eclipse. You can find everything you need at the URL http://eclipsexslt.sourceforge.net
With this plugin you will be able to perform XSLT transformations with Saxon and Xalan processors and using JAXP and Xerces to parse your XML files. The way I see it, this plugin should be simply used to test some XSLT transformation you are working on. A very big constraint of the plugin is that it does not permit you to perform a certain transformation on a number of documents. When configuring a launch configuration you will have be asked to define the source file and you will not be given the possibility to define a folder for that. If you are in a situation where you have to perform XSLT transformations on a number of file I would recommend you to write some java code simply using JAXP.
0 Responses to “Orangevolt XSLT plugin”