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Re: First stable release of the Gnome XSLT library (fwd)
Dan York wrote:
> Kevin,
Can it be used for formatted output ?
>> Just thought I'd pass along this information about an XSLT
>>library... If you didn't know, Gnome and KDE are Linux desktop
>>environments. It looks like this library can be compiled on other
>>platforms also.
>>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up... I've been using libxslt (on a Linux box)
> for a couple of weeks now and have been *very* pleased with how it
> has handled XML/XSLT. It does not require Java and just runs from the
> command prompt (as "xsltproc"). I have been very pleased with the output
> for HTML pages.
>
> After reading your note, I went and downloaded the 1.0 release. The only
> "gotcha" is that you need to also download Norm's 1.41 XSL stylesheets
> to use libxslt with chunking. (Norm rewrote part of chunker.xsl and
> Daniel Veillard (libxslt author) modified part of libxslt for the new
> way of working with the stylesheets.)
>
> But I can report that the two work very well together and all the
> processing seems to be going fine.
>
> Regards
> Dan
>
> P.S. here again is the libxslt download info:
>
>
>> The C code and precompiled RPM packages for linux are available at
>> ftp://xmlsoft.org/
>>
>> The project pages are at:
>> http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
>> http://xmlsoft.org/
>>
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