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TestXSLT 3.1

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XSLT and XSL-FO language editor. Free

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Marc Liyanage

TestXSLT is a small, AppleScriptable Cocoa application for experimenting with the XSLT and XSL-FO languages on Mac OS X.

It uses the Sablotron, Gnome Libxslt, Saxon and Xalan-J XSLT processors, the FOP XSL-FO rendering engine, has lots of new features and a friendly user interface that makes playing around and learning XSLT fun.

Some features which were added recently like interactive well-formedness checking while you type or a tag completion feature also make it useful as a general-purpose XML editor.

What's New

Version 3.1:

Extra special big thanks to the folks at VitalSource (http://www.vitalsource.com) for their generous donation in support of this release :-)
Fixed the most common cause for a crash when quitting the application or closing a document window. The crash still occurs very rarely though.
XSL-FO processing works again after it was broken by the Java 1.4.2 update.
There's now a preferences dialog, currently with the following options. - 1.) It allows to disable the syntax analysis which can take a long time with large documents. Note that disabling it also disables automatic closing tag insertion. - 2.) It allows to disable the wellformedness check. Disabling this stops the little warning icon from appearing. - 3.) It allows to edit the default text snippets that are inserted into the XML and XSLT text areas of new documents.
Because of the way the preferences dialog is implemented (Cocoa Bindings), the program now requires Mac OS X 10.3.
The wellformedness check error message (if any) is now visible in the error message drawer, and not only in the tooltip of the little warning icon. You open the drawer by clicking onto the warning icon.
Updated the Xalan-J processor to 2.6.
Updated the Saxon processor to 8.3, which means you can now experiment with XSLT 2.0 and XQuery.

Version 3.1:

Extra special big thanks to the folks at VitalSource (http://www.vitalsource.com) for their generous donation in support of this release :-)
Fixed the most common cause for a crash when quitting the application or closing a document window. The crash still occurs very rarely though.
XSL-FO processing works again after it was broken by the Java 1.4.2 update.
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Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

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Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jun 2005

I spend more time troubleshooting this app than getting constructive use out of it. Bug reports posted to the developer's forum 6 months ago haven't been acted upon.

Why, oh, why won't someone write a nice, small-footprint XML processor for mac? This isn't it. It's exactly the right idea, except, for instance, I give it perfectly valid xml, and it not only claims that something is wrong with it, but flashes and then erases the error message so quickly I can't even read it, all I end up with is an "alert" icon and no text.

[Version 3.1]

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Anonymous commented on 30 Jun 2005

Since typing the above, I tried to check his forums to see if maybe I'd missed a reply, and discovered that not only can't I view his website now from two different browsers on two different computers, I can't even view Google's cached copies of his pages! (I'm not having problems right now with any other site on either machine.)

This whole thing has been an experience in frustration, all i wanted was a simply XSLT tranform on some XML data and what I got was an hour of frustration and nothing useful whatsoever.

Anonymous reviewed on 10 May 2005

I love, use, NEED, this app, but it continually crashes since I've performed the latest 10.3.9 update. WOE IS ME!

(sigh)

It seems to occur whenever I've got two files open... Can pin it down, but hopefully the developer can! :-)

This is the ONLY tool you need to develop XSLT solutions for ANY platform!! Thank God for XSLT!

[Version 3.1]

Cb31 commented on 20 Feb 2005

It would have been nice had the requirement for 10.3.x been made more obvious. Thinking the application was still 10.2.x friendly, I replaced the previous version with the new one. Guess I should read the fine print more closely eh?

[Version 3.1]

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Kballard reviewed on 19 Feb 2005

This is an incredibly useful tool. I don't often have to fool with XSLT, but when I do, this tool is a godsend. Only thing that would make it better would be an XPath browser (i.e. execute arbitrary XPath statements on the XML and see what matches).

[Version 3.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 19 Feb 2005

The developer is a total class act, making so much incredible software for free. All he asks for in return are donations, and even then he only keeps enough to pay for the web hosting, giving the rest to charity.

[Version 3.1]

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