- Troubles compiling or linking programs using libxslt
Usually the problem comes from the fact that the compiler doesn't get
the right compilation or linking flags. There is a small shell script
xslt-config which is installed as part of libxslt usual
install process which provides those flags. Use
xslt-config --cflags
to get the compilation flags and
xslt-config --libs
to get the linker flags. Usually this is done directly from the
Makefile as:
CFLAGS=`xslt-config --cflags`
LIBS=`xslt-config --libs`
Note also that if you use the EXSLT extensions from the program then
you should prepend -lexslt to the LIBS options
- passing parameters on the xsltproc command line doesn't work
xsltproc --param test alpha foo.xsl foo.xml
the param does not get passed and ends up as ""
In a nutshell do a double escaping at the shell prompt:
xsltproc --param test "'alpha'" foo.xsl foo.xml
i.e. the string value is surrounded by " and ' then terminated by '
and ". Libxslt interpret the parameter values as XPath expressions, so
the string ->alpha<- is intepreted as the node set
matching this string. You really want ->'alpha'<- to
be passed to the processor. And to allow this you need to escape the
quotes at the shell level using ->"'alpha'"<- .
or use
xsltproc --stringparam test alpha foo.xsl foo.xml
- Is there C++ bindings ?
Yes for example xmlwrapp , see the related pages about bindings
