Lab #5 - XSLT Processing

CS 183 - Hypermedia and the Web

The goal of this laboratory assignment is to exercise knowledge of XPath path expressions and XSLT stylesheets by creating a functional stylesheet. So long as you have followed the setup for lab #4, no additional setup is necessary for this lab assignment.

The assignment is a repeat of the DOM parsing assignment from lab #1. That is:

1. Using use this XML file as input, create an XSLT stylesheet that, after execution, creates an HTML file that outputs the following information:

• Title of the document
• Full name and email address of all authors
• Document abstract
• List of acknowledgements

These can be found in the XML elements and attributes:

• title
• author, attribute fullname
• email
• abstract
• section, attribute title="Acknowledgements"

The output should have the following attributes. Where the output format is unspecified, it can be in any reasonable format.

• title should be bold, in a sans-serif font
• email addresses should be in italics
• There should be a section heading for the abstract ("Abstract") and for the acknowledgements ("Acknowledgements")

It should be much, much easier to do this assignment than the original DOM parsing assignment.

Note: To manually operate the Xalan XSLT processor, use the following command at the unix command prompt (all on one line):

java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in {input XML file} -xsl {your XSLT file} -out {name of your output HTML file}

For example:

java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in $CS183_LOCKER/draft-ietf-webdav-ordering-protocol-07.xml -xsl ejw_lab5.xslt -out ejw_lab5.html

Note: The input file for the lab is located at:

$CS183_LOCKER/draft-ietf-webdav-ordering-protocol-07.xml

/afs/cats.ucsc.edu/class/cmps183-jw.s03/draft-ietf-webdav-ordering-protocol-07.xml