I\'d like to be able to run an xml transformation using an xslt file in my AIR project. What\'s the best way to accomplish this?
In AIR 1.5, a version of Webkit with support for XSLT is included.
Use the class XSLTProcessor
from JavaScript just like you would in Firefox. (Note: There is one annoying bug. Stylesheets cannot contain non-breaking spaces, no matter whether literally or as a character reference. I am told that more recent versions of Webkit will fix this issue.)
Below is a complete example.
Create a file test.html
<html>
<head>
<title>XSLT test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
// <!--
function test() {
// Step 1: Parse the stylesheet
var stylesheet
= "<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'"
+ " version='1.0'>"
+ " <xsl:template match='/'>"
+ " Hello World from XSLT!"
+ " </xsl:template>"
+ "</xsl:transform>";
var stylesheetDocument
= new DOMParser().parseFromString(stylesheet, "application/xml");
// Step 2: Parse the source document
var source = "<dummy/>";
var sourceDocument
= new DOMParser().parseFromString(source, "application/xml");
// Step 3: Perform the XSL transformation
var xslt = new XSLTProcessor();
xslt.importStylesheet(stylesheetDocument);
var newFragment = xslt.transformToFragment(sourceDocument, document);
// Step 4: Show the result
document.body.appendChild(newFragment.firstChild);
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="submit" onclick="test()">
Output:
</body>
</html>
and a file test.xml
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0">
<id>test</id>
<filename>test</filename>
<initialWindow>
<content>test.html</content>
<visible>true</visible>
</initialWindow>
</application>
You can try it using the debugging runtime, for example:
adl test.xml
Klick the button, and it will say:
(source: lichteblau.com)
XSLT support is typically provided by browsers. The version of Webkit embedded in AIR does not support XSLT. So, you'll have to do this all by yourself. I found this project that lets you play around with XPath queries in AS3. Now, template parsing and node creation you'll have to do by yourself.