Claudio Sacerdoti Coen has announced the release of version 1.2.0 of
UWOBO, an open-source (GPL'ed) Java servlet for performing
XSLT transformations (using Xalan) over the Web.
The UWOBO site provides a browser-based "control panel" [source code] you can use to control any
local or remote UWOBO servlet, including instances of the
servlet running on the project webserver at the University of
Bologna. So you can use it to try out the servlet (without
needing to download and install it locally).
The control panel (which requires that you have JavaScript
enabled) allows you to specify:
-
the URI for
an XML source document
-
URIs for
one or more XSLT stylesheets [1]
-
parameters
to pass to the XSLT engine (Xalan)
UWOBO appears to be an extension of the HELM
(Hypertextual Electronic Library of Mathematics) project, which
has as its stated purpose is the development of
a suitable technology for the creation and maintenance
of a virtual, distributed, hypertextual library of structured
mathematical knowledge, eventually passing through the
eXtensible Markup Language. The final aim is to allow
mathematical documents to be served, received and processed
on the Web, just as HTML has enabled this function for the
text
The
HELM library is rendered "on the fly" using
the UWOBO servlet