xslt 1.6.13
dotnet tool install --global xslt --version 1.6.13
dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install --local xslt --version 1.6.13
#tool dotnet:?package=xslt&version=1.6.13
nuke :add-package xslt --version 1.6.13
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 | 57 | 9/2/2026 |
| 1.6.12 | 62 | 8/30/2026 |
| 1.6.11 | 59 | 8/29/2026 |
| 1.6.10 | 65 | 8/27/2026 |
| 1.6.9 | 226 | 8/26/2026 |
| 1.6.8 | 58 | 8/26/2026 |
| 1.6.7 | 68 | 8/24/2026 |
| 1.6.6 | 73 | 8/23/2026 |
| 1.6.5 | 64 | 8/22/2026 |
| 1.6.4 | 91 | 8/16/2026 |
| 1.6.3 | 71 | 8/14/2026 |
| 1.6.2 | 66 | 8/13/2026 |
| 1.6.1 | 74 | 8/4/2026 |
| 1.6.0 | 78 | 7/31/2026 |
| 1.5.0 | 78 | 7/27/2026 |
| 1.4.25 | 82 | 7/17/2026 |
| 1.4.24 | 76 | 7/14/2026 |
| 1.4.23 | 94 | 7/12/2026 |
| 1.4.22 | 84 | 7/10/2026 |
| 1.4.21 | 76 | 7/9/2026 |
Eleven fixes found by running XSpec's 284-suite corpus against the engine. On that corpus:
102 suites ran to completion before, 129 now; 505 assertions passed before, 1077 now. No suite
lost ground at any measured step.
### fn:transform dropped parameters, and mis-identified namespaced names
`template-params` and `tunnel-params` never reached an initial MODE: `TransformAsync` passed its
with-param list and `TransformRawAsync` passed an empty one at all three of its call sites.
XSpec compiles a scenario-level `x:param` under `x:context/@mode` into `template-params`, so
whole suites ran with their parameters missing and terminated on the first assertion that read
one.
Separately, every name in an `fn:transform` option map arrives from `fn:QName()` at runtime,
carrying an interned id the parser never assigned. Namespaced names missed every lookup - and a
namespaced `initial-mode` collapsed to no namespace and ran a DIFFERENT mode that happened to
share a local name.
`initial-match-selection` was also round-tripped through an XPath string, so a sequence became
the CLR text `System.Object[]`. No expression can denote an arbitrary existing node, so that
conversion could never work; the value is carried now.
### xsl:attribute with a body escaped its content twice
The body form runs its content into the ordinary output buffer, which escapes for element
content, and the finished value was escaped again. `&` came back as `&`. The select and
AVT forms were always correct, so the divergence was between forms.
Nothing errors - the attribute is well-formed, just wrong - so it only surfaces when something
reads the value back. XSpec's compiler builds a `select` attribute this way around an XPath
containing `=>`, and the generated stylesheet then failed to parse. Worth 148 assertions.
### A forward-declared global with a NAMESPACED name was evaluated too early
Dependencies were collected by testing a variable reference for membership in the set of
declared names. The reference comes from the XPath parser and the declaration from the
stylesheet parser, and their interned ids can differ - so for a namespaced name the lookup
missed and the dependency was never recorded.
Nothing errored. The topological sort simply did not order the pair, and a global declared
before the ones it selects from read unbound values. It surfaced far from the cause as node
kinds collapsing: `comment()` and `element()` came back as documents, `attribute()` as an empty
string, `namespace-node()` as text.
### Other correctness fixes
- Supplied parameters overwrote global `xsl:variable`s. XSLT 3.0 §9.5: a value supplied for a
name declared as a variable is not a parameter and must have no effect.
- The internal text marker leaked into template matching, type coercion and node-typed
variables - three places that reasonably assume a real node.
- A global `as="text()"` variable took an id from the node store without registering it.
- Union-pattern siblings forked their group identity, so two branches of ONE rule stopped
recognising each other and matching both raised XTDE0540 (spec bug 30402).
- `as="processing-instruction(name)"` bound a document; the named spelling had no branch and
fell to a silent `item()` default.
- `SetInitialTemplate` mis-parsed an EQName, splitting `Q{http://x}main` at the URI's colon.
### Errors that named the code and not the problem
XTDE0555, XTTE0570, XTDE0540 and XPDY0002 reported the error code and the expected type - the
two things the author already knows - and not the actual node, mode, value or conflicting rules.
XTTE0570 was emitted from nine sites with identical text. A CLR type name was also reaching
users as `match="PhoenixmlDb.Xslt.Ast.DotPattern"`.
Three clusters were then solved in a single run each by reading the improved message.
Xslt.Tests 1416 passed, 0 failed