Hands-on with Saxon-JS

XSLT in the browser has long been a promise, but nowadays, creators of web browsers have lost interest. They only support the early version of the standard, but very often support is even missing or going to be withdrawn. This is a pity. A fact is that many XSLT transformations can be done on the server, but transformations in the client side can still be useful, for instance when XML documents are retrieved from an external source and have to be formatted. Saxon-JS solves this problem. Additionally, and very interestingly, it can also come in the place where people normally apply Javascript. Saxon-JS is able to respond to user events such as clicks, keystrokes, focus events, finger events and much more. It can handle such events by applying XSLT to the HTML document that lives inside the browser, for instance by changing attributes or by adding or removing content. My tutorial will give you a hands-on experience by compiling stylesheets for use in the browser and putting it to work for some common use-cases. Bringing your own laptop is required if you want to fully participate.