# How to use xslt on Windows Ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-xslt-on-windows-ruby/192610 "2010-08-03T04:14:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Author)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-xslt-on-windows-ruby/192610/1 "2010-08-03T04:14:16Z")
Hi, I am new to Ruby, i just want to automate my daily work by using some ruby script. here is a question, how to use xslt in Ruby under Windows, since Windows is my working system. Here are my job to be done: I need to transform some .Net resource files(.resx) to a special xml format which will be used in our company’s translation system, and after translation, the xml files need to be transformed back to .Net resource files. Ruby is easy to learn, however, when i try to use xslt, i found that there is no working xslt lib(or gems in ruby world) for Windows, the famous ruby-xslt gems only works for linux, I googled from Internet, and some articles say recomipling the libxml is necessary, why things are so complicated, shouldn’t ruby be the SIMPLER language? anybody knows how to do this? thanks in advance! – Best regards, Liang ---
**Author:** ![Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Author)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 9:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-xslt-on-windows-ruby/192610/2 "2010-08-03T09:09:51Z")
any idea? On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Author [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ruby-xslt gems only works for linux, I googled from Internet, and some – Best regards, Liang ---
**Author:** ![Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Author)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-xslt-on-windows-ruby/192610/3 "2010-08-03T16:07:14Z")
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Author [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > complicated, shouldn’t ruby be the SIMPLER language? > > anybody knows how to do this? No I don’t, but this was the sixth result for “ruby xslt windows” on Google: Using Ruby on Rails and XSLT to Create a Word 2007 Document [Using Ruby on Rails and XSLT to Create a Word 2007 Document | Microsoft Learn](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee895050%28office.12%29.aspx) ``` The Ruby on Rails applications that you create in this Visual How To uses the following components, which you must install before you ``` build the application: ``` * Ruby version 1.8.6 language. * RubyGems version 1.3.5 * Ruby package manager to enable installation of Ruby gems. * Rails version 2.3.2 Web development framework. * ZipRuby gem version 0.3.2 to provide Ruby language bindings for libzip library for reading, creating, and modifying zip ``` archives to enable working with Word 2007 documents as ZIP files. \* Nokogiri gem version 1.3.3 to enable XML document support. \* LibXml-Ruby gem version 1.1.3 to provide Ruby language bindings for the GNOME Libxml2 XML toolkit. \* LibXSLT-Ruby gem version 0.9.2 to provide Ruby language bindings for the GNOME Libxslt toolkit. So it looks like: gem install nokogiri libxml-ruby libxslt-ruby And the documentation for libxslt-ruby: [http://libxsl.rubyforge.org/](http://libxsl.rubyforge.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Author)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-xslt-on-windows-ruby/192610/4 "2010-08-03T16:30:04Z")
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Author [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > I am new to Ruby, i just want to automate my daily work by using some ruby > script. here is a question, how to use xslt in Ruby under Windows, since > Windows is my working system. Please take a look at the nokogiri gem. It contains a version of libxml that is pre-built for windows, and supports xslt functionality. You can get more information be emailing the nokogiri-talk mailing list at removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Author)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-xslt-on-windows-ruby/192610/5 "2010-08-03T17:11:38Z")
Thank you, I will have a try, hope it works:) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Mike D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > that > is pre-built for windows, and supports xslt functionality. > > You can get more information be emailing the nokogiri-talk mailing list at > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid – Best regards, Liang ---
**Author:** ![Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Author](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Author)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-xslt-on-windows-ruby/192610/6 "2010-08-05T03:51:52Z")
Thank you, Mike It works pretty well on Windows Nokogiri is a nice gem On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Author [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > ruby > > at > > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > – > > Best regards, > Liang – Best regards, Liang