Cocoa Release: Safari Guide 1.3
Announcing Version 1.3 of Safari Guide, my Cocoa developer tool for evaluating XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and JavaScript expressions against a webpage or document in the frontmost Safari window. Safari Guide requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Download Safari Guide 1.3 (113kb)
New in this version:
- XSLT! — Now you can also evaluate remote XSLT stylesheets or arbitrary XSLT source code against the frontmost Safari window.
I saved XSLT for last, cuz it’s pretty much the least useful of the four types of expressions you can evaluate using Safari Guide. Why? Because every modern browser already supports client-side XSLT, and therefore you already have a handy, powerful XSLT engine on your machine whether you knew it or not.
Still, Safari Guide does offer a small convenience over using your browser for testing out XSLT stylesheets… Safari Guide allows you to apply an arbitrary remote stylesheet against the frontmost Safari window by typing in it’s URL.
Safari Guide’s XSLT feature works a little bit different from the other 3 items. The result of evaluating the specified XSLT is not reflected in the Safari window. Instead, the result source and rendered result are displayed at the bottom of the Safari Guide XSLT tab.