LKBEN10964: Howto transfor xml into html with xsltproc and a xsl stylesheet

Symptom

You can hardly view a xml file in a browser, wenn you convert it first it looks much better

Cause

This is by design.

Solution

You can use a xsl or xslt stylesheet to transform xml to native html. This can be viewed easily even with a command line browser like w3m or lynx.

xsltproc lubby.xsl <filename.xml> > /tmp/testing.html

w3m /tmp/testing.html

lynx /tmp/testing.html

You can use any browser to view the resulting file.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.