XML Editor…
I was asked recently what XML, XSD and XSLT editor I use. Given that I am an independent/small consulting firm owner, spending $1000s of dollars on development tooling that will come out of my own pocket is not my first choice.
Some Simple Updates To A DataPower XSLT stylesheet.
In the last post, we saw how an XML Firewall in loopback mode could be used to return a valid SOAP response to a service message. The stylesheet used simply returned a static SOAP response that was independent of the input parameters. The stylesheet returns a response containing the sum of two…
DataPower Exports and XML Files Referenced by Stylesheets
I was recently presented with an opportunity to be clever while promoting DataPower objects from a development environment to a testing environment. The WS-Proxy object’s policy rules had a Transform Action that ran a custom stylesheet. The stylesheet referenced a configuration file that was kept…
DataPower Extension Functions and Elements
Anyone who has spent time working with DataPower has had to write an XSLT stylesheet at some point. DataPower provides a library of functions and elements that provide access to various DataPower functionality.
XSLT & XPath
XSLT is the only scripting language supported by WebSphere DataPower appliances. It is the only way to customize DataPower functionality and behavior. So, anyone that works with DataPower for a while will sooner be writing XSLT stylesheets.
Sample Stylesheet—Starting Point
I often have to go back and look up these details; so, I decided to post a standard starting point for a new stylesheet.