Oxygen XML Developer includes the following XSLT processors:
- Xalan 2.7.1 - Xalan-Java is an XSLT processor for transforming XML
documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements XSL
Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.
- Saxon 6.5.5 - Saxon 6.5.5 is an XSLT processor that implements the Version 1.0
XSLT and XPath with a number of powerful extensions. This version of Saxon also includes
many of the new features that were first defined in the XSLT 1.1 working draft, but for
conformance and portability reasons these are not available if the stylesheet header
specifies version="1.0".
- Saxon 9.6.0.7 Home Edition (HE), Professional Edition
(PE) - Saxon-HE/PE
implements the basic conformance level for XSLT 2.0 / 3.0 and XQuery 1.0. The term
basic XSLT 2.0 / 3.0 processor is defined in the draft XSLT 2.0 / 3.0
specifications. It is a conformance level that requires support for all features of the
language other than those that involve schema processing. The HE product remains open
source, but removes some of the more advanced features that are present in Saxon-PE.
- Saxon 9.6.0.7 Enterprise Edition (EE) - Saxon EE is the
schema-aware edition of Saxon and it is one of the built-in processors included in Oxygen XML Developer. Saxon EE includes an XML Schema processor, and schema-aware XSLT,
XQuery, and XPath processors.
The validation in schema aware transformations is done
according to the W3C XML Schema 1.0 or 1.1. This can be
configured in Preferences.
Note: Oxygen XML Developer implements a Saxon framework that allows you to create Saxon
configuration files. Two templates are available: Saxon collection
catalog and Saxon configuration. Both of these
templates support content completion, element annotation, and attribute annotation.
Note: Saxon can use the
ICU-J localization library
(
saxon9-icu.jar) to add support for sorting and date/number
formatting in a wide variety of languages. This library is not included in the
Oxygen XML Developer installation kit. However, Saxon will use the default collation and
localization support available in the currently used JRE. To enable this capability
follow these steps:
- Download Saxon 9.6.0.7 Professional Edition (PE) or
Enterprise Edition (EE) from http://www.saxonica.com.
- Unpack the downloaded archive.
- Create a new XSLT transformation scenario (or edit an existing one). In the
XSLT tab, click the Extensions
button to open the list of additional libraries used by the transformation
process.
- Click Add and browse to the folder where you unpacked the
downloaded archive and choose the saxon9-icu.jar file.
Note that the saxon9-icu.jar should NOT be added to the
application library folder because it will conflict with another version of the ICU-J
library that comes bundled with Oxygen XML Developer.
- Saxon-CE (Client
Edition) is Saxonica's implementation of XSLT 2.0 for use on web browsers. Oxygen XML Developer provides support for editing stylesheets that contain Saxon-CE
extension functions and instructions. This support improves the validation, content
completion, and syntax highlighting.
Note: Saxon-CE, being JavaScript-based, was designed to run
inside a web browser. This means that you will use
Oxygen XML Developer only for
developing the Saxon-CE stylesheet, leaving the execution part to a web browser. See more
details about
executing such a stylesheet on Saxonica's website.
- Xsltproc (libxslt) - Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the Gnome project.
Libxslt is based on libxml2, the XML C library developed
for the Gnome project. It also implements most of the EXSLT set of processor-portable
extensions, functions, and some of Saxon's evaluate and expression extensions. The
libxml2 version included in Oxygen XML Developer is 2.7.6 and the Libxslt version is 1.1.26.
Oxygen XML Developer uses Libxslt
through its command line tool (Xsltproc). The XSLT processor is
included in the distribution kit of the stand-alone version for Windows and Mac OS X.
Since there are differences between various Linux distributions, on Linux you must install
Libxslt on your machine as a separate application and set the PATH
variable to contain the Xsltproc executable.
CAUTION:
Known problem: file paths containing spaces are not handled
correctly in the LIBXML processor. For example, the built-in XML catalog files of the
predefined document types (DocBook, TEI, DITA, etc) are not handled properly by LIBXML if
Oxygen XML Developer is installed in the default location on Windows (C:\Program
Files). This is because the built-in XML catalog files are stored in the
[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks subdirectory of the installation directory,
which in this case contains at least a space character.
- MSXML 4.0 - MSXML 4.0 is available only on Windows platforms. It can be used for
transformation
and validation of XSLT stylesheets.
Oxygen XML Developer uses the Microsoft XML parser through its command line tool msxsl.exe.
Since
msxsl.exe is only a wrapper, Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML)
must be installed on the computer. Otherwise, you will get a corresponding warning. You
can get the latest Microsoft XML parser from Microsoft web-site.
- MSXML .NET - MSXML .NET is available only on Windows platforms. It can be used for
transformation
and validation of XSLT stylesheets.
Oxygen XML Developer performs XSLT transformations and validations using .NET Framework's
XSLT implementation (System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform class) through the
nxslt command line utility. The nxslt version included in Oxygen XML Developer is 1.6.
You should have the .NET
Framework version 1.0 already installed on your system. Otherwise, you will get the
following warning: MSXML.NET requires .NET Framework version 1.0 to be installed.
Exit code: 128.
You can get the .NET Framework version 1.0 from the Microsoft website.
- .NET 1.0 - A transformer based on the System.Xml 1.0
library available in the .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1 frameworks from Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/). It is available
only on Windows.
You should have the .NET Framework version 1.0 or 1.1 already installed
on your system. Otherwise, you will get the following warning: MSXML.NET requires
.NET Framework version 1.0 to be installed. Exit code: 128.
You can get
the .NET Framework version 1.0 from the Microsoft website.
- .NET 2.0 - A transformer based on the System.Xml 2.0
library available in the .NET 2.0 framework from Microsoft. It is available only on Windows.
You
should have the .NET Framework version 2.0 already installed on your system. Otherwise,
you will get the following warning: MSXML.NET requires .NET Framework version 2.0
to be installed. Exit code: 128.
You can get the .NET Framework version
2.0 from the Microsoft website.
For information about configuring the XSLT preferences,
see the XSLT options section.
