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Warning

Removal notice:

Please note that the URL user and URL user password parameters were removed in 5.8.5 (see Deprecation notice: URL user and URL user password parameters). We recommend using profiles

 to

 to access external data.

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Features

  • Uses XSLT to transform XML to HTML, XHTML, or wiki markup. Supports XSLT 1.0.

  • Supports working with XSL parameters; only available with wiki output format. See Passing parameters to the XSLT engine section.

  • Supports security restrictions as described in Macro Security for Confluence.

  • Supports capabilities for including data similar to other scripting macros.

  • Supports find and replace for adjusting resulting output.

Info
  • The macro works with valid, downloadable XML and XSLT files only. 

    Tip
    titleHow to identify XML files that are valid for the macro?

    Paste the file link into your browser's address bar. If the actual XML code is displayed in the browser, it is considered to be invalid or in an incorrect format. If the file downloads to your system, the macro can process the file and its contents.

  • If you want to specify a URL in the Location parameters, make sure that only a raw URL is provided.

     A

     A raw URL is defined as the part of the URL following the domain information and includes the query string, if present.

     For

     For example, in the URL string http://www.contoso.com/articles/recent.aspx, the raw URL is /articles/recent.aspx.

Parameters

o

Macro browser label

Default

Description

Macro parameter

Transformed output format

html

Specify how the output is treated. The options are as follows:

  • html - transformed output is standard HTML.

  • xhtml - transformed output is treated as XHTML and rendered with the Confluence XHTML renderer.

  • wiki - transformed output is treated as wiki markup and rendered with the Confluence wiki renderer.

output

Profile


Enter the profile name to access the files to be transformed. Profiles contain a basic set of parameters used to access a remote location such as the type of URL, user credentials, and so on. Refer to 

this link t

profiles configuration to know more about

profile configuration and this link for

profiles and see tutorials. 

Note
  • Contact your Confluence

administrator for
  • administrator for further information about the profiles available in your instance.

  • If a profile is specified, it is recommended to provide the relative path to the location of the XML file to be rendered.

profile

Location of XML code

macro body

Enter the location of XML data. By default, the macro transforms the code

entered in

entered in the macro body.

  • #filename - Data is read from the file located in Confluence home/script/filename directory. Subdirectories can be specified.

  • global page template name - Data is read from a global page template. Special note: How to deal with templates on Confluence 4.3 and later.

  • space:page template name - Data is read from a space template.

#http
  • #http://... - Data is read from the URL specified. May require user name and password as well.

    Info

    If a Profile is specified, the pound (#) sign is optional, that is, the URL is processed regardless of the pound (#) sign before the URL.

  • ^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the current page.

  • page^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the page name provided.

  • space:page^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the page name provided in the space indicated.

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title

Precedence in URL handling

URLs are processed using a fixed precedence explained as follows:

  1. If the given URL is linked to a specific application like Bitbucket, GitLab, or GitLab, the macro does not require any user credentials, and processes and renders the given file. Refer to

this article
  1. application links for information

about application links
  1. .

  2. If Profile is specified, the macro appends the URL given here with the URL specified in the profile configuration, and accesses the location to render the required file.

  3. Lastly, if no application links or profiles were given, the URLs are processed as-is and the required file is rendered.

source

Location of XSL code

macro body

Enter the location of XSL code. This field becomes mandatory if source XML code is entered in the macro body. By default though, the XSL content in macro body is considered.

  • #filename - Data is read from the file located in Confluence home/script/filename directory. Subdirectories can be specified.

  • global page template name - Data is read from a global page template. Special note: How to deal with templates on Confluence 4.3 and later.

  • space:page template name - Data is read from a space template.

#http
  • #http://... - Data is read from the URL specified. May require user name and password as well. 

    Info

    If a Profile is specified, the pound (#) sign is optional, that is, the URL is processed regardless of the pound (#) sign before the URL.

  • ^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the current page.

  • page^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the page name provided.

  • space:page^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the page name provided in the space indicated.

style

Find regex patterns


Enter a comma-separated list of regex patterns to repair and modify XML prior to processing by the XSLT processor with find and replace logic. 

Refer to this article for

Read more

information

about regular expressions.

Example: (google\.dtd)

find

Replacement strings


Enter a comma-separated list of positions to search

for patterns

for patterns in the output content. Note that the positions are indexed beginning at "1".

 If

 If a comma is a part of an entry, use single quotes around it.

Example: http://www.google.com/$1

replace

Include head section HTML

false

Enable this option to retain all the other tags from the header section and treat them as regular body content. This is useful for retaining style information in particular.

 By

 By default, the head tag is always removed.

head

Show error message panel

false

Displays the XSL transformer generated warning and errors in a panel even if the transformation is not terminated with an error. Terminating errors automatically generate an error panel.

showErrors

Error level

NONE

Specify the level at which the data process fails. The selected level determines how the XSLT macro handles data processing errors. The options are:

  • NONE - No action is to be taken.

  • WARNING - Display a warning about the data process; processing does not stop.

  • ERROR - Display an error and further processing is halted.

  • FATAL - Stops any further data processing.


File encoding

system default

Specify the

encoding

encoding for an external file, if different from the system default handling.

Example: UTF-8

.

encoding

User id for URL connection


Enter the user name to be used for URL access to XML and XSL files.

Warning

Removal notice:

Please note that the URL user and URL user password parameters were removed in 5.8.5 (see Deprecation notice: URL user and URL user password parameters). We recommend using  profiles to access external data.

user

Password for URL connection


Enter the user password to be used for URL access to XML and XSL files. 

Warning

Removal notice:

Please note that the URL user and URL user password parameters were removed in 5.8.5 (see Deprecation notice: URL user and URL user password parameters). We recommend using  profiles to access external data.

password

Timeout in milliseconds


Enter time in milliseconds to wait until the URL connection times out before getting data. Use this to increase time needed for slow connections. Note that if a zero is given, the connection may wait indefinitely.

timeout

Disable secure processing feature

false

Enable this option to disable secure processing of XML and XSL files.

If authorized by your Confluence administrator to change this setting, more powerful capabilities are available. See

Jira Legacy
HTML-89
HTML-89
for details. Administrators can use

CMSP

Macro Security for Confluence to enable these more powerful capabilities.

disableSecureProcessing

XSLT Version

1.0

Select the version based on your style (XSLT) input document.

 This

 This drop-down contains the XSLT versions that the macro is compatible with.

Available

Available since 5.4.0 version.

xsltVersion

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Info

About profiles:

  • Administrators create profiles to connect to remote locations. A profile contains the basic information required to access a remote location and usually contains the base URLs of the location. In the macro editor, you must specify the relative URL in the Location of XML data parameter. The macro combines these paths to create an absolute URL. If any part of this URL is incorrect or the URL itself is invalid, the macro generates an error. To get more information about profiles, select the relevant article specified in the Helpful resources section.

  • If you get an error message, "Security restricted macro

    with parameter

    with parameter 'profile' is not allowed. An edit restriction is required that matches the macro authorization list.", it means that the Macro Security macro has restricted the use of profiles in the macro. Ask your administrator to add the following entries in Macro Security for Confluence Configuration > Secured macros:

    • Key: xslt.profile.*
      Value: *ANY

    • Key: xslt
      Value: *ANY

Usage

Download a copy of the cdcatalog.xsl from https://www.w3schools.com/xml/cdcatalog.xsl and attach it to your page.

noformat
No Formatcode
{xslt:style=^cdcatalog.xsl}
<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
</cd>
<cd>
<title>Maggie May</title>
<artist>Rod Stewart</artist>
<country>UK</country>
</cd>
</catalog>
{xslt}

Code Block
{xslt:source=^cdcatalog.xml|style=#http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/cdcatalog.xsl}
{xslt}

...

Code Block
{xslt:source=xslt - basic^cdcatalog.xml|style=#http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/cdcatalog.xsl}
{xslt}

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transformerParameters

Passing parameters to the XSLT engine

Parameters not interpreted by the XSLT macro are passed through to XSLT. You must use wiki syntax to take advantage of this.

The following example is provided by Johan Nagels:

No Formatcode
{xslt:output=wiki|source=Home^snippets.xml|winnersOnly=lala}
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:param name="winnersOnly">no</xsl:param>
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
The value of winnersOnly is "<xsl:value-of select="$winnersOnly"/>"
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>{xslt}

The output of the code is: The value of winnersOnly is "lala"

If you omit the parameter tag, the output shown is: The value of winnersOnly is "no"

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Helpful resources

  • Profiles in the Configuration screen

  • Key concepts

     to

     to understand how to link and render XML content from other sources

...