Welcome to the Saxon XSLT Processor [1] Local Service
This local service provides an XSLT Transformation Engine for transforming XML-encoded
source documents using a supplied XSLT stylesheet. The service functions as a java
servlet and can be invoked usingthe following syntax:
http://[hostname]:[port-number]/saxon/SaxonServlet?source=[xml-source]&style=[xsl-stylesheet]&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes
Where:
- [hostname] - The hostname of the Fedora server; default is localhost.
- [port-number] - The port number on which the Fedora server is running; default is 8080.
- [xml-source] - The URL of the XML source file.
- [xsl-stylesheet] - The URL of the XSLT stylesheet file.
- clear-stylesheet-cache - An optional parameter indicating if the stylesheet cache is to be cleared. A value of of "yes" signals to clear the stylesheet cache. If the parameter is omitted or has any other value, the stylesheet cache remains untouched.
Example:
http://localhost:8080/saxon/SaxonServlet?source=http://dl.lib.virginia.edu/data/xmltext/ead/viu03270&style=http://dl.lib.virginia.edu/bin/ead/xsl/document.xsl
Configuring Authentication
If the Saxon Servlet needs to retrieve a stylesheet or source xml that is protected
by basic authentication, it can be configured to do so by setting the parameters in
the servlet's web.xml file. In the Fedora server distribution, this file
can be found under the tomcat directory in webapps/saxon/WEB-INF.
The example below is what needs to be added for each host:port/path combination that the servlet needs to provide credentials for. The param-value is a colon-delimited username and password pair. When the Saxon Servlet needs to access a URL starting with the param-name, it will provide these credentials. Multiple init-param elements may be provided.
The Saxon Servlet will need to be restarted in order for new values to take effect.
[1] This service uses the SAXON XSLT Processor from Michael Kay which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). For additonal information regarding the SAXON XSLT Processor, please refer to the Saxon project web site on SourceForge at: http://saxon.sourceforge.net/.