xslt.js version 3.0 released XML XSLT now with jQuery plugin

Posted 2008-05-19 in JavaScript by Johann.

xslt.js is a tiny JavaScript library to transform XML with XSL. Essentially, it’s a JavaScript wrapper around the browser’s XSLT API.

The version 3.0 now includes a jQuery plugin.

Browser Support

xslt.js supports the following browsers:

• Mozilla 0.9.4 and greater.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and greater, Internet Explorer 6 and greater if using the jQuery plugin.
• Opera 9 and greater.
• Safari 3 or greater.

jQuery XSL plugin

To use the jQuery XSL plugin, add the jquery.xsltjs.js file (5 KB) to your page. Files compressed with YUI (2 KB) and YUI and /packer/ (2 KB) are included in the download as well.

Ideally, you would compress all JavaScript files on your page into one single file though.

The jQuery plugin extends jQuery with a function called xslt. Its parameters are xml and xslt where xml is the URI of the XML file and xslt is the URI of the XSL style sheet.

$('#myid').xslt('bla.xml', 'bla.xslt');

Changelog

• JavaScript compression changed from ShrinkSafe to YUI Compressor to /packer/.
• xslt.js version information removed.
• jQuery plugin.

Issues

• There is no XSLT callback in the jQuery plugin. This means you currently cannot modify the transformed XML. If you need this, please let me know.

Tips

• To perform an XSLT onload, use the following JavaScript:
  

  $(function() {
   $('#element').xslt('bla.xml', 'bla.xslt');
  });

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