JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Name

XSLTProcessor: transform XML with XSLT stylesheets — Firefox 1.0, Safari 2.01, Opera 9: Object → XSLTProcessor

Constructor

new XSLTProcessor( )

Methods

clearParameters( )

Deletes any previously set parameters.

getParameter( )

Returns the value of a named parameter.

importStyleSheet( )

Specifies the XSLT stylesheet to be used.

removeParameter( )

Deletes a named parameter.

reset( )

Resets the XSLTProcessor to its initial state, clearing all parameters and stylesheets.

setParameter( )

Sets a named parameter to a specified value.

transformToDocument( )

Transforms the specified document or node using the stylesheet passed to importStylesheet( ) and parameters passed to setParameter( ). Returns the result as a new Document object.

transformToFragment( )

Transforms the specified document or node, returning the result as a DocumentFragment.

Description

The XSLTProcessor transforms XML document nodes using XSLT stylesheets. Create an XSLTProcessor object with the no-argument constructor, and initialize it with an XSLT stylesheet with the importStylesheet( ) method. If your stylesheet uses parameters, you can set those with setParameter( ). Finally, perform an actual XSL transformation with tranformToDocument( ) or transformToFragment( ).

Internet Explorer supports XSLT but does not implement the XSLTProcessor object. See the IE-specific transformNode( ) and transformNodeToObject( ) methods of Node, and see Chapter 21 for XSLT examples and cross-platform utility functions.

See Also

Node.transformNode( ...