XSLT 2.0 transformation via linux shell

java shell xslt jar saxon

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Solution 1

The documentation of Saxon is online: http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/#!using-xsl/commandline. So you need java -jar saxon9he.jar -xsl:foo.xsl -s:foo.xml -o:bar.xml.

Solution 2

Update: check solution 2 and 3 if your java is version 11 or later, where .internal. are not available anymore.

I just wrote this bash script to use com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.cmdline classes for transforming XML. Works with openjdk just fine. Not a solution for production use cases but handy for debugging.

P.S. took the idea from this blog

SOLUTION 2: use xalan command line
SOLUTION 3: https://github.com/physikerwelt/xstlprocJ

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Updated on July 20, 2022

Comments

Alp almost 2 years

I want to perform an XSLT 2.0 transformation by the use of command line executions. I heard that i could use the Saxon library by a shell command like java -jar sax.jar -input foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -output bar.xml. Does anyone know how exactly i can achieve that goal?

By the way, i am not limited to Java. Any other shell solution is fine.
- Vincent Biragnet over 12 years
  
  Be aware that a Sax parser does not perform XSLT. Sax parser parse XML in a stream and fire events. Saxon is an XSLT processor. Most of the time a XSLT processor does not stream. Saxon (in his commercial version) has streaming capabilities with the latest instructions provided by XSLT 3.0.
- Alp over 12 years
  
  thanks for clarification of correct naming
Alp over 12 years

thanks alot. i also found this: manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man1/saxonb-xslt.1.html is that good too or what would you prefer?
Michael Kay over 12 years

The version of Saxon shipped with your Ubuntu distribution is probably rather old. It's probably better to download the most recent version (though if you're a beginner you probably won't notice much difference).
febot about 3 years

It seems, like all .internal. stuff, it goes away after some time... So your bash script ends up with ClassNotFoundException with JDK 11
akostadinov about 3 years

@OndraŽižka, you are right. I've updated answer with another solution. Do you think Java stopped to embed XSLT or rather we have no way to access it anymore?