IBM® Informix® 12.10

Transforming documents with XSLT functions

Apply XSL stylesheets and transforms to XML documents.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) uses XML elements to describe the format of a document. You can use the XSLT functions that IBM® Informix® provides to apply XSL transformations (XSLT) to XML documents, resulting in a document in a different XML schema, HTML, PDF, or any defined type. XSL and XSLT are standards defined by the World Wide Web Consortium, which you can find at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.

IBM Informix supports the XSLT version 1.0 standard for style sheets and uses the Xalan XSLT processor and the Xerces Java™ parser.

The documents take arguments of an XML file and a stylesheet. The output is a new document whose type is determined by the XSLT transform. The input arguments can be lvarchar, clob, or blob.

  1. The xsltransform function
    Use this function to return a document up to 32,739 bytes.
  2. The xsltransformAsClob function
    Use this function to return a CLOB document resulting from an XSL transform.
  3. The xsltransformAsBlob function
    Use this function to return a BLOB document resulting from an XSL transform.
Parent topic: Performing XML Publishing

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timestamp Release date: March 2013