The XSLT C library for GNOME

1. 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

2. 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

3. Is there C++ bindings ?

   Yes for example xmlwrapp , see the related pages about bindings

Daniel Veillard