xslt-templates

An Express-compatible XSLT rendering engine

This is very much alpha-state, no tests yet, use it at your own risk...

Allows to do stuff like:

var express = require('express'),
    xslt = require('xslt-templates')
    app = express(),
    port = 8000;

// assign the xslt engine to .xslt files
var opts = {
    xsl: {
        stripXML: true
    }
}

app.engine('xslt', xslt(opts));

// set .xslt as the default extension
app.set('view engine', 'xslt');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/templates/pages');

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.locals = {
        params: {
            'current-page': 'home'
        },

        users: [

            {
                _id: 123,
                name: "Andrea",
                nick: "nany"
            },
            {
                _id: 222,
                name: "Someone",
                nick: "smn"
            },
            {
                _id: "abc",
                name: "Me",
                nick: "mmmm"
            }
        ]

    };
    res.render('index');
}); 


app.listen(port);
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + port);

Behind the scene the json context is converted to XML using the excellent easyxml library:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<data>
  <params>
    <current-page>home</current-page>
  </params>
  <users>
    <user id="123">
      <name>Andrea</name>
      <nick>nany</nick>
    </user>
    <user id="222">
      <name>Someone</name>
      <nick>smn</nick>
    </user>
    <user id="abc">
      <name>Me</name>
      <nick>mmmm</nick>
    </user>
  </users>
</data>

Transformation is handled by node-libxslt