RE: [xsl] Xalan-Java Windows installation

[Maria Amuchastegui <mamuchastegui@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you both -- this is is very helpful.

Maria

-----Original Message-----
From: N. Ganesh Babu [mailto:ganesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:27 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Xalan-Java Windows installation



N. Ganesh Babu wrote:
> Hi Maria,
> 
> 1. Java Installation
> 
> j2sdk-1_4_2 is not the latest version. jdk-1_5_0_03-windows-i586-p is 
> the latest version. Download this from the location 
> http://192.18.97.252/ECom/EComTicketServlet/BEGIN754CDBD17D60CEF55569C
> 93537238E1A/-2147483648/842234127/1/615302/615146/842234127/2ts+/westC
> oastFSEND/jdk-1.5.0_03-oth-JPR/jdk-1.5.0_03-oth-JPR:2/jdk-1_5_0_03-win
> dows-i586-p.exe
> 
> Follow the installation instructions. by default the installation will 
> be in the folder C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\.
> 
> Add the path C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\bin to autoexec.bat. 
> with the command
> 
> set path=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\bin set 
> classpath=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\lib\tools.jar
> 
> 
> 2. Xalan Installation.
> 
> extract the zip file to c:\
> add the following lines to your autoexec.bat files after tools.jar
> 
> ;c:\xalan-j_2_6_0\bin\bsf.jar;c:\xalan-j_2_6_0\bin\xalan.jar;c:\xalan-
> j_2_6_0\bin\xalansamples.jar;c:\xalan-j_2_6_0\bin\xercesImpl.jar;
> c:xalan-j_2_6_0\bin\xml-apis.jar
> 
> Restart you system now.
> 
> Now execute the fillowing command. Replace foo with your input files.
> 
> |java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN foo.xml -XSL foo.xsl -OUT 
> |foo.out|
> 
> you can see your transformed output in foo.out.
> 
> Regards,
> Ganesh
> 
> Wendell Piez wrote:
> 
>> Hi Maria,
>>
>> At 05:24 PM 5/2/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>> I am migrating a set of stylesheets from a Microsoft to a Java
environment.
>>> The stylesheets were originally written for the MSXML4 parser, but 
>>> now they are going to use Xalan-Java.
>>>
>>> I'd like to install Xalan-Java for Windows on my desktop so that I 
>>> can view transformations locally. So far I have downloaded the 
>>> current Xalan-Java binary (xalan-j-current-bin.zip) as well as the 
>>> Java 2 SDK (j2sdk-1_4_2_08-windows-i586-p.exe). I'm not sure what to do
next.
>>>
>>> I'm not an XSL newbie but I am new to Java.
>>
>>
>> Well there's no such thing as "Xalan-Java for Windows", that's the 
>> first lesson. Java is Java, on any platform. :->
>>
>> Unfortunately, since Xalan is just like most any other Java 
>> application, your question isn't really an XSL question, but sits on the
edge.
>>
>> But: you need to install and run a JVM (Java Virtual Machine), an 
>> application which in effect provides a little computer to run Java 
>> bytecode (the stuff you get when you download Xalan), inside your
computer.
>>
>> Once you've installed the Java SDK and unzipped Xalan, you can invoke 
>> Xalan from a command line -- Xalan docs give info on how to do that: 
>> see http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/commandline.html
>>
>> The part you'll probably find confusing is the "classpath" bit. A 
>> good beginner's book to Java can help, but basically this is a matter 
>> of telling Java where to find Xalan. So for example if you have an 
>> environment variable XALANHOME you might say
>>
>> java -cp
>> %XALANHOME%/xalan.jar;%XALANHOME%/xml-apis.jar;%XALANHOME%/xercesImpl
>> .jar -IN foo.xml -XSL foo.xsl -OUT foo.out
>>
>> which will load Xalan and use it to transform 'foo.xml' into 
>> 'foo.out' using 'foo.xsl'. (The "-cp" flag indicates the classpath.)
>>
>> If you're accomplished with shell scripts (e.g., on Windows, DOS 
>> batch files) you'll find that knowledge will come in handy for saving 
>> you from repetitive typing. People frequently load entire classpaths 
>> into environment variables; in my case I have so much Java all over 
>> my system that I tend to wrap these up into scripts.
>>
>> Alternatively, you could try an XML/XSLT editing environment like 
>> oXygen, which installs in Windows, is written in Java, and runs Xalan 
>> for its transformations (you can also run Saxon in it if you like). 
>> This is a reasonably-priced editor that sets it all up for you:
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com. (I'd make sure your machine has the 
>> horsepower to do this, however - it runs okay in a 1GHz processor w/ 
>> 384MB RAM.)
>>
>> Or you could try http://www.xmlcooktop.com/, which isn't very 
>> fully-featured, and requires more in the way of setup. But it does 
>> wrap things up for you -- and the price is right.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wendell
>>
>>
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