I have two strings.
The first one is a xml string, saved as a string, not from a file.
The second one is a string I load from a XSLT file with fs.readFile(...).
I already tried using libxslt but can't install it via npm due to some errors about MSBuildTools and so on.
Are there any alternatives for libxslt? I already came across xslt-processortoo, but it only accepts files as parameters.
EDIT 1:
to provide you an overview, the XSLT file and an example XML file (both handled as strings in the app) can be downloaded here:
- Stylesheet in a ZIP File
- Example XML Files in a ZIP
I somehow got a workaround for my problem:
- I now use the
xth library (install via npm: npm i xth)
- import it into my function:
var xth = require('xth');
- put the xml String into a data URI:
var xml = 'data:text/xml,' + encodeURIComponent(xmlString);
- the XSLT file is now not a String but the file:
var xsl = './../components/ELGA_Stylesheet_v1-0.xsl';
Then, I just call the method xth as in the example at xth - npm
1 xth(xml, xsl, function (html) {
2 html = html.replace(/</g, "<");
3 html = html.replace(/>/g, ">");
4 html = html.replace(/&/g, "&");
5 openWindow(html);
6 });
the item html is the xslt transformed string, I had one final problem: in the <script> Tags of the output string, the symbols <,> and & were there as <, >, and & which caused problems. lines 2 to 4 are the workaround for this issue
openWindow(html)is my own method to open the result string in a new electron window.
NOTE: one problem remains: as mentioned here, navigation via # in <a href=#id> doesn't work, because Chromium doesn't allow navigation to top frame to data uri.
