xslt processor for ruby

[Agnieszka Figiel]

Hello,

could you please recommend a xslt processor for ruby? I tried Michael
Neumann's xslt4r which worked great for simple xsls. Now I'm looking for
something more up to date - a problem I ran into was when trying to use
the generate-id function. Any library that would support that?

Thanks!

Agnieszka

 

[Wilson Bilkovich]

Hello,

could you please recommend a xslt processor for ruby? I tried Michael
Neumann's xslt4r which worked great for simple xsls. Now I'm looking for
something more up to date - a problem I ran into was when trying to use
the generate-id function. Any library that would support that?

Have you run into these yet?
(recently updated)
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-xslt/

(way, way old)
http://www.rubycolor.org/sablot/

 

[Agnieszka Figiel]

Have you run into these yet?
(recently updated)
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-xslt/

(way, way old)
http://www.rubycolor.org/sablot/

Thank you. I'm wondering if any of these supports XSLT 2.0?

 

[Mark Volkmann]

From what I gather XSLT 2.0 is still a recommendation (a strong one, but
still),

I think what you meant to say is that XSLT 2.0 is a "candidate
recommendation". The next and last step is to become a plain
"recommendation".

and only Saxon has any plans to implement it properly.

Saxon has already fully implemented XSLT 2.0. See
http://www.saxonica.com/. Also, you can get a free XSLT 2.0 engine
from Altova, makers of XML Spy. Both also support XQuery 1.0.

It would be great if someone would create a Ruby binding to Saxon.
Until then, your best bet is probably to use Saxon from Ruby by
executing a shell command with backquotes. For information on how to
run Saxon from a shell command, see
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/index/gettingstarted.html.

 

[Mark Volkmann]

Oops, yes, sorry.


I didn't mention XML Spy because I thought it's commercial / Windows only=

?

The thing I'm referring to is called "AltovaXML 2006". You can read
about it at http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html. It is free. However,
I didn't realize it was Windows only. Bummer!