Digital humanities

Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Last modified: 2022-10-26T01:49:19+0000

XSLT configuration in <oXygen/>

Configuring and running the transformation

Open (or create) the XML and XSLT files in <oXygen/>
Switch to the XSLT debugger view (red circle, far right)
Select the XSLT engine (choose Saxon-HE) (orange circle, lower left)
Check the XHTML box (green circle, right of center)
Verify that you’ve chosen the correct XML and XSLT files in the drop-down boxes at the top (blue circles, upper left). The files that will be used are not necessarily the ones you see in the panels below the menu bar; the files that will be used are the ones whose names are displayed in the dropdowns in the menu bar.
Specify an output filename to save output (fuchsia circle, upper middle). When you click Save, it doesn’t save the output file; what it saves is your specification of the filename to use for the output file. In order to save the output file you must then run the transformation.
Run the transformation straight through by clicking on the fat blue arrow (turquoise circle, lower middle).
Examine the output as XHTML and text in the right panel

Checking your work

You must open the output file created by your transformation in <oXygen/> and validate it. If it isn’t valid, fix the XSLT, rerun the transformation, and validate the new output. Valid HTML output is a baseline requirement for any transformation of XML to HTML.