Apache Xalan is a XSLT processor that transforms XML documents into other formats (text, (X)HTML, or other XML).

Here is simple file that should be put in the root directory of Xalan (my is C:JavaSoftApachexalan-j_2_6_0), and can be invoked like this:

cd C:JavaSoftApachexalan-j_2_6_0 xalan.bat samplesSimpleTransformbirds.xml samplesSimpleTransformbirds.xsl samplesSimpleTransformout.xml

There is only two lines above, I had to split the second. It is useful when trying out XSLT, so you don’t have to write a new agent / class every time you have new files you want to transform.