gulp-xslt2

XSLT plugin for Gulp which uses Java bridge to The Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processor from Saxonica Limited.

Installation

npm install gulp-xslt2 -S

Usage

Initialization

var xslt = require('gulp-xslt2');

which inits plugin with default options:

{
    searchPaths: process.cwd(),
    extensionsToTransform: ['.xml', '.xhtml', '.svg', '.xsl', '.xsd']
}

New instance with different options:

var xslt = require('gulp-xslt2').init({
    searchPaths: ['src1', 'src2'],
    extensionsToTransform: ['.xml']
});

Option searchPaths is used to resolve xsl files. It works like a PATH environment variable.

Files with extension unlisted in extensionsToTransform will directily pass to result stream without transformation.

Piping

Unlike other plugins, the plugin uses Node – Java Bridge, so it initializes Java only once at the beginning. The following transformations take significantly less time compared to the execution of separate child process for each step and each file.

gulp.src('*.xml')
    .pipe(xslt('foo.xsl'))
    .pipe(xslt('bar.xsl'))
    /***/
    .pipe(xslt('zzz.xsl'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./results'))
;

More then one result document

Documents created with <xsl:result-document> instruction are also added to output stream.

Composite template

If several xslt templates are passed:

.pipe(xslt('*.xsl')) // ...using globs

.pipe(xslt(['foo.xsl', 'bar.xsl'])) // ...passing array

...the following template will be generated and transformed:

<xsl:stylesheet version="3.1">
    <xsl:include href="foo.xsl"/>
    <xsl:include href="bar.xsl"/>
    ...
</xsl:stylesheet>

Troubleshooting: Popup dialog to install legacy JAVA SE 6 on macOS

It could be because the Oracle JDK does not advertise itself as available for JNI. Please see this issue for more details and manual workarounds.

Examples

Please find brief demos of these features in examples/ directory in the source repository.