Book List Example
The XML file books.xml
(derived from a file issued originally by Microsoft)
is used for a number of demonstrations. This file, along with its DTD
books.dtd
, is found in the samples/data
directory.
Transform
The stylesheet books.xsl
can be used to display the data, and is designed to
illustrate several Saxon extensions. Run this as follows, with the samples directory as
the current directory:
On the Java platform:
java net.sf.saxon.Transform -s:data/books.xml -xsl:styles/books.xsl -o:output.htmlOn the .NET platform:
Transform -s:data/books.xml -xsl:styles/books.xsl -o:output.htmlThis produces an HTML page showing the data.
The stylesheet takes a parameter named "top-author". This is the name of the "author of the week", and the default value is "Jasper Fforde". To run the stylesheet with a different top author, try adding to the end of the command line:
..... top-author='Thomas Hardy'Query
A query that runs with this data is also supplied. The command to use on the Java platform is:
java net.sf.saxon.Query -s:data/books.xml -q:query/books.xq -o:output.htmlThe equivalent on .NET is:
Query -s:data/books.xml -q:query/books.xq -o:output.htmlOther demonstrations
Several other related XML resources are supplied. The schema for
data/books.xml
is data/books.xsd
. Also supplied in the
samples resources is the file data/books-invalid.xml
, which (as the name
suggests) is a version of the books file which is invalid against the schema, and
data/more-books.xml
which lists some different books. These resources
may be used for instance with the sample applications QuickValidator.java
,
SchemaValidatorExample.java
, and
SchemaValidatorHandlerExample.java
.
There is another stylesheet, styles/books-csv.xsl
, which converts the data
in the file data/books.xml
into a comma-separated-values file.
The stylesheet styles/total.xsl
is used by the JDOM2 Example application, and the query
query/books-to-html.xq
is used by one of the examples in the
QueryAPIExamples.java
application.
The sample program XPathExampleSA.java
illustrates the use of the JAXP XPath
API, extended by Saxon to allow schema-aware XPath 2.0 processing. The program is
designed to run against the sample file books.xml
. It produces a list of
all books over 2cm thick that were published during the 6 years since the start of
2000.
Also see the SQL extension
instructions example for details on the sample stylesheet
styles/books-sql.xsl
which uses Saxon SQL extension instructions to
load the contents of books.xml
into a database table.