XSLT Conversion

XSLT is a language that is typically used for transforming XML documents into either a different XML document or plain text. XSLT is key part of Stroom’s pipeline processing as it is used to normalise bespoke events into a common XML audit event document conforming to the event-logging XML Schema .

Once a text file has been converted into intermediary XML (or the feed is already XML), XSLT is used to translate the XML into the event-logging XML format.

The XSLTFilter pipeline element defines the XSLT document and is used to do the transformation of the input XML into XML or plain text. You can have multiple XSLTFilter elements in a pipeline if you want to break the transformation into steps, or wish to have simpler XSLTs that can be reused.

Raw Event Feeds are typically translated into the event-logging:3 schema and Raw Reference into the reference-data:2 schema.