Shakespeare Example
This example works on an input file containing a Shakespeare play. You can use any of the
Shakespeare plays in Jon Bosak's distribution at http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/xml/eg/shaks200.zip, but for convenience one of
them, Othello, is included in the saxon-resources
download (in the
samples/data
directory).
Shakespeare stylesheet
There is an XSLT stylesheet play.xsl
which processes an input play in XML
and generates a set of linked HTML files (one for the play and one for each scene) in an
output directory. To run this on the Java platform, create a directory (say
playhtml
) and execute the following from the command line:
java net.sf.saxon.Transform -s:data/othello.xml -xsl:styles/play.xsl dir=playhtml
The equivalent on .NET is:
cd samplesTransform -s:data/othello.xml -xsl:styles/play.xsl dir=playhtml
The last parameter sets the value of the constant dir
to the value
playhtml
; this constant is referenced from the stylesheet when creating
output files.
Shakespeare XPath Sample Application
This example applies to the Java platform only. However, there is also a C# version
of this application in samples/cs/XPathExample
.
In the samples/java
directory is an example application called
XPathExample.java
. This is designed to illustrate the use of Saxon's
implementation of the JAXP 1.3 XPath API from a Java application. It searches a
Shakespeare play for all occurrences of a word entered from the console, displaying the
lines containing that word, and the context where they appear.
To run this example, first ensure that it is on your classpath, and find the location of
the othello.xml
file in the samples/data
directory. Open a
command-line console, and run the application using the command:
java XPathExample data/othello.xml
The application prompts for a word. Enter the word (try "castle" or "handkerchief"). The lines containing the chosen word are displayed on the console. Exit the application by entering ".".
Other Sample Applications
Also see the related sample programs XPathExampleDOM.java
- a variant of the
XPathExample application written to use DOM interfaces, and
XPathExampleServlet.java
which illustrates the use of the JAXP XPath
API within a Java servlet.