Tridion 2013 - XSLT Mediator

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XSLT Mediator Usage

Transformation Configuration

Xslt mediator allows specifying special parameters which are used for the transformation process:

<?XsltMediator inputitemname="*package name*" outputitemname="*package name*" extensionsTbbId="*tcm:223-123123-2048*"?>

The output methods defined are:

• XHTML
• XML
• HTML
• Text

For Example:

    <xsl:stylesheet>
         <xsl:output method="xhtml" /> (or xml, html, text)
    </xsl:stylesheet>

Transformation Parameters

Available (auto-populated) parameters for use in transformation:

• TEMPLATE_URI
• tcm:Page
• tcm:ComponentTemplate
• tcm:Publication
• tcm:ResolvedItem
• tcm:ResolvedTemplate
• tcm:XsltTemplate

For Example:

    <xsl:param name="TEMPLATE_URI" />
    <xsl:param name="tcm:Page" />
    <xsl:param name="tcm:ComponentTemplate" />
    <xsl:param name="tcm:Publication" />
    <xsl:param name="tcm:ResolvedItem" />
    <xsl:param name="tcm:ResolvedTemplate" />
    <xsl:param name="tcm:XsltTemplate" />

Additionally its possible to read package variables:

    <xsl:param name="*Package Name*" />

(Supports plain, html, xml package items) or

    <xsl:param name="${Indirect Name}" />

This allows specifying a package variable which in turn specifies the variable name to look up the actual value from.

Extensions

• Default XsltTemplateHelper

• String GetFormattedDate(string inputDate, string dateFormat)

• XmlDocument GetListItems(String orgItemId)

• XmlDocument GetMultimediaInfo(String id)

• Adding IFunctionSource from Package.FunctionSources Configured through Tridion.ContentManager.config as per SDL Portal: Custom Functions

• Add IFunctionSource exported through ExtensionTbbId (Defined as xslt processing instruction)

Namespace can be configured by implementing the Tridion.ContentManager.Templating.Xslt.XsltExtensionAttribute on the extension class.

    [XsltExtensionAttribute(Namespace = "http://www.company.com/tridion/xslt/functionsource")]
    public class Xslt : IFunctionSource
    {
    ....

Note that when no namespace is specified, the default namespace is: http://www.sdltridion.com/ContentManager/FunctionSource/ + typename