Ruby/XSLT is a simple XSLT class based on libxml <xmlsoft.org/> and libxslt <xmlsoft.org/XSLT/>

Copyright © 2003-2012 Gregoire Lejeune <gregoire dot lejeune at free dot fr>

Ruby/XSLT is freely distributable according to the terms of the GNU General Public License (see the file ‘COPYING’).

This program is distributed without any warranty. See the file ‘COPYING’ for details.

sudo gem install ruby-xslt

or

ruby extconf.rb # see CONFIGURATION for more options
make
make test
make doc
sudo make install

--help                   display this help and exit

--with-xslt-lib=PATH
--with-xslt-include=PATH
--with-xslt-dir=PATH     specify the directory name for the libxslt include 
                         files and/or library 

--disable-error-handler  disables the new error handler 

--disable-exslt          disables libexslt support <http://exslt.org/>

require 'xml/xslt'

xslt = XML::XSLT.new()
xslt.xml = "text.xml"
xslt.xsl = "test.xsl"

out = xslt.serve()
print out;

require 'rexml/document'
require 'xml/xslt'

xslt = XML::XSLT.new()

xslt.xml = REXML::Document.new File.read( "test.xml" )
xslt.xsl = REXML::Document.new File.read( "test.xsl" )

out = xslt.serve()
print out;

require 'xml/smart'
require 'xml/xslt'

xslt = XML::XSLT.new()

xslt.xml = XML::Smart.open( "test.xml" )
xslt.xsl = XML::Smart.open( "test.xsl" )

out = xslt.serve()
print out;

require "xml/xslt"

xslt = XML::XSLT.new()
xslt.xsl = "parameter.xsl"
xslt.xml = "test.xml"
xslt.parameters = { "p1" => "the first parameter ...",
                    "p2" => "'and the second one!'" }
xslt.save("test1.html")

xslt.parameters = { "p1" => "Ruby...",
                    "p2" => "'...is cool !'" }
xslt.save("test2.html")

require "xml/xslt"

xslt = XML::XSLT.new()
xslt.xsl = "functions.xsl"
xslt.xml = "test.xml"

XML::XSLT.registerExtFunc("http://test.none", "round-trip") do |arg|
  arg
end

XML::XSLT.registerExtFunc("http://test.none", "type") do |arg|
  arg.class.to_s
end

print xslt.serve

XML::XSLT.registerErrorHandler { |string| puts string }

xslt = XML::XSLT.new
xslt.xml = "not xml"

This fragment would print:

Entity: line 1: 
parser 
error : 
Start Tag expected, '<' not found
not xml
^