Re: [xsl] Lookup without document('') function

[Kip Hampton <khampton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carver wrote:
> I'm currently using an XSLT parser that unfortunately doesn't support
> the document() function (it's still alpha software), ideally I'd switch
> to one of the other full feature ones, but don't know of an XSLT parser
> that is fully functional that is supported in Active State Perl.

A bit off-topic, but, you are certainly not forced to work around such 
broken tools in the Windows Perl World. PPM packages for XML::LibXSLT 
(the Perl interface to the Gnome Project's lighting-fast, fully XSLT 
1.0-compliant processor, libxslt) are available.

You'll need 3 things:

1) the Windows binary for Gnome's XML parser, libxml2 [1]. (To be safe, 
get the last version in the 2.5.x series, since 2.6.x is very new and 
the PPM might not be in sync yet).

2) Grab the binary for libxslt, mentioned  above [2]

3) Once the above are installed, use ActiveState Perl's ppm utility to 
install the required Perl interfaces. At the command prompt:

C:\> ppm
ppm> set repository theoryx http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/
ppm> install XML-LibXML
ppm> install XML-LibXSLT

Assuming nothing blows up along the way, this will give you a 
rockin'-fast and strictly compliant XSLT 1.0 processor for use with your 
Perl apps.

My apologies to the list for the off-topicness of all of this, but no 
one should have to suffer with b0rken tools when better choices are 
available...

Cheers,
-kip

[1] http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
[2] http://xmlsoft.datenkueche.com/XSLT/downloads.html


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