Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into XML, HTML or text.
Here's how to convert XML to HTML with Xalan in 5 steps.
Step 1. Download Xalan
You can navigate through a few menus, or click the zip file below:
Step 2. Copy Xalan and Xerces to Program Files, or wherever you store programs.
The Zip file you just downloaded contains a thousand files, but you need only 4.
set dest=c:\apps\xalan-c
mkdir %dest%
cd /d c:\Users\Richard\Downloads
copy /Y .\xalan_comb-1.11-x86-windows-VC100\XALANCPKG-11-31-VC100\bin\Xalan.exe %dest%
copy /Y .\xalan_comb-1.11-x86-windows-VC100\XALANCPKG-11-31-VC100\bin\Xalan-C_1_11.dll %dest%
copy /Y .\xalan_comb-1.11-x86-windows-VC100\XALANCPKG-11-31-VC100\bin\XalanMessages_1_11.dll %dest%
copy /Y .\xalan_comb-1.11-x86-windows-VC100\XERCESCPKG-31-VC100\bin\xerces-c_3_1.dll %dest%
Step 3. Create your XML data file. E.g. books.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<book-collection>
<book>
<author>Isaac Asimov</author>
<title>Foundation</title>
</book>
<book>
<author>Eckhart Tolle</author>
<title>The Power of Now</title>
</book>
</book-collection>
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Step 4. Create your XSLT transform. E.g. books.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/book-collection">
<html>
<body>
<table border="1">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Author</th>
<th>Title</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<xsl:for-each select="book">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="author"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Step 5. Run Xalan
c:\apps\xalan-c\xalan.exe books.xml books.xslt > books.html
All done. Open books.html for the output
<html>
<body>
<table border="1">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Author</th>
<th>Title</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Isaac Asimov</td>
<td>Foundation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eckhart Tolle</td>
<td>The Power of Now</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>