xslt 1.6.11
See the version list below for details.
dotnet tool install --global xslt --version 1.6.11
dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install --local xslt --version 1.6.11
#tool dotnet:?package=xslt&version=1.6.11
nuke :add-package xslt --version 1.6.11
xslt
Command-line XSLT 3.0/4.0 processor for .NET. Transform XML documents from the terminal using the PhoenixmlDb XSLT engine.
Installation
dotnet tool install -g xslt
Usage
# Transform XML with a stylesheet
xslt stylesheet.xsl input.xml
# Write output to a file
xslt -o result.html report.xsl data.xml
# Start from a named template (no source needed)
xslt -it main generate.xsl
# Pass parameters
xslt -p year=2026 -p title="Report" style.xsl data.xml
# Read source from stdin
cat data.xml | xslt transform.xsl
# Show timing breakdown
xslt --timing style.xsl large-input.xml
# Validate a stylesheet without running
xslt --dry-run style.xsl
# Stream large files (lower memory)
xslt --stream style.xsl large-input.xml
Features
- XSLT 3.0/4.0 — packages, streaming, maps/arrays, higher-order functions, JSON output
- Multiple output methods — XML, HTML, XHTML, text, JSON, adaptive
- Streaming — process large files without loading into memory
- xsl:result-document — generate multiple output files in one transform
- Parameters — pass values from the command line
- Timing — built-in performance profiling
- Tracing — log template matching, function calls, and built-in rules
Documentation
Full documentation at phoenixml.dev
License
Apache-2.0
| Product | Versions Compatible and additional computed target framework versions. |
|---|---|
| .NET | net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed. |
This package has no dependencies.
| Version | Downloads | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 1.6.13 | 51 | 9/2/2026 |
| 1.6.12 | 59 | 8/30/2026 |
| 1.6.11 | 55 | 8/29/2026 |
| 1.6.10 | 60 | 8/27/2026 |
| 1.6.9 | 220 | 8/26/2026 |
| 1.6.8 | 53 | 8/26/2026 |
| 1.6.7 | 63 | 8/24/2026 |
| 1.6.6 | 68 | 8/23/2026 |
| 1.6.5 | 62 | 8/22/2026 |
| 1.6.4 | 89 | 8/16/2026 |
| 1.6.3 | 69 | 8/14/2026 |
| 1.6.2 | 64 | 8/13/2026 |
| 1.6.1 | 72 | 8/4/2026 |
| 1.6.0 | 74 | 7/31/2026 |
| 1.5.0 | 78 | 7/27/2026 |
| 1.4.25 | 80 | 7/17/2026 |
| 1.4.24 | 74 | 7/14/2026 |
| 1.4.23 | 93 | 7/12/2026 |
| 1.4.22 | 83 | 7/10/2026 |
| 1.4.21 | 75 | 7/9/2026 |
### `xsl:attribute` content leaked into the caller's sequence
Reported by Martin Honnen against XSpec's `format-xspec-report.xsl`:
XTTE0505: Template 'scenario-html-class-attribute' return value does not match
declared type Attribute: expected exactly one item, got 2
His objection was the right one — a template whose body is a single `xsl:attribute` cannot
express two items, so the second had to come from the engine. It did: the attribute's VALUE was
landing in the caller's result sequence while the attribute node itself was built empty.
`xsl:attribute` has two branches. The one taken when `separator` is present isolates the
enclosing sequence; the common no-separator branch did not — and `xsl:sequence` checks for an
active sequence accumulator *before* any attribute-content check. So
<xsl:attribute name="class">
<xsl:choose>…<xsl:sequence select="'failed'"/>…</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
inside a typed template appended `"failed"` to the caller. Verified against his actual
stylesheet: it now emits complete HTML with the correct `class` values.
### Both CLIs report the engines they bundle
`xquery --version` read 1.6.9 while embedding `PhoenixmlDb.Xslt` **1.6.6**, so four releases of
XSLT fixes were unreachable from the command line and nothing on screen said so. Martin had to
infer it from a repro that kept failing against a version that supposedly contained the fix.
xslt 1.6.11 (PhoenixmlDb XSLT 3.0/4.0)
PhoenixmlDb.Xslt 1.6.11
PhoenixmlDb.XQuery 1.6.10
PhoenixmlDb.Core 1.6.7
A version identifies the package, not what it carries. Printing it surfaced live drift on the
first run, which this release also clears (the XQuery pin moves 1.6.9 → 1.6.10).
### Package locations without another vendor's file format
`fn:transform` could only learn package locations from a Saxon configuration document, which
made another implementation's format a de facto dependency for `xsl:use-package`. There is now
a native vocabulary:
'vendor-options': map {
QName('http://phoenixml.dev/ns/vendor-options', 'packages'): map {
'http://example.org/lib.xsl' : 'lib/library.xsl',
'http://example.org/other' : map { 'location': 'o.xsl', 'version': '2.0' }
}
}
Saxon's vocabulary is still read so existing stylesheets keep working, but it is now one
recognised vocabulary rather than the only door. Options in other vocabularies are ignored
rather than claimed — the first cut matched a bare local name `configuration` in any namespace,
which would have seized a foreign vendor's option and could mask a real one.
### Typed template bodies no longer double-count their own text
Text written inside a stylesheet function went to both the sequence accumulator and the output
buffer, and the pass that recombines them assumed they were disjoint — so a template declared
`as="text()"` returned two items with identical content. Two XSpec suites went from erroring at
the Run stage to completing.
Xslt.Tests 1315 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped (1310 at 1.6.10)
XSLT conformance 10237/10630 = 96.30%
XSpec: 62 of 284 suites complete end to end