XSLTTester - MSXML & Xalan XSLT Tester Utility

["Bill Clementson" <bill_clementson at email dot msn dot com>]

I have written XSLTTester - an html utility which allows me to test XSLT
style sheets against the Microsoft and Apache XSLT processors. This has been
a useful utility for me and might be of use to some others. Here is a brief
overview of the utility:

The XSL processor that comes with IE5 is not compatible with the XSLT 1.0
recommendation of the W3C. However, the technology preview that Microsoft
has made available on their web site is nearly there. Since the Apache Xalan
XSLT processor is compatible with the W3C XSLT 1.0 recommendation, this
utility allows you to compare style sheet results easily across XSLT
processor implementations. It allows you to:

1. Toggle between using the standard IE5 XSL processor, the March Microsoft
MSXML Technology Preview of their "almost compliant" XSLT processor or
Apache's Xalan XSLT processor.
2. View the result of the transformation in the browser window and
(optionally) save the transformation result in a file.
3. View the generated html source (if you're outputting html).
4. View the source of both the XML file and the XSLT file

This utility is meant to be run locally so you will need to download it to
see it in action. Prereqs for using the utility include IE5, the March
Microsoft MSXML Technology Preview & the Apache Xalan XSLT processor. The
XSLTTester download page (with instructions for downloading all the
necessary components, installing and testing) is at:

http://www.geocities.com/bill_clementson/XSLTTesterHelp.htm


-Bill



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