Hi,
My Perl script receives data back from a legacy database in the form of an
XML file, which I want to process with an XSL template. I am thinking of
using 'xsltproc' to process the file.
The only way I have used xsltproc is as a commandline , eg
system('xsltproc -o myoutput.xxx mytemplate.xsl myxml.xml')
and then reading the output file, which might either be an xml or a html
document, and printing it to stdout, and then unlinking my temporary xml
input and the output files.
For some scripts, usually in the case of errors , I generate a (very simple)
XML from a string and print that to stdout. I would like also to be able to
apply an XSL template against that, and so I am saving that xml document
string to a temporary file so I can use xsltproc as per above.
I know this is very clumsy. I think perhaps I should be using a pipe, but I
am really at a loss where to start. My two major questions would be,
1. can I apply a transformation against the XSLT and XML but instead of
saving the output to a file, can I retrieve that to a string, and,
2. instead of having my input xml file as a file on disk could it come from
a string representation of my xml document.
Alternatively, should I be approaching this from an entirely different
direction.
Many thanks
Brian
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