Yax is an Java implementation of the XProc Specification, an XML Pipeline Language (XProc: An XML Pipeline Language W3C Working Draft 17 November 2006). Yax processes XProc Scripts like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xproc:pipeline name="pipe1" xmlns:xproc="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/xproc/1.0 xmlns:yax="http://opsdesign.de/yax/1.0"> <xproc:step name="trans1" type="xproc:XSLT" yax:description="transforms 'a*' elements to 'b*' elmenents."> <xproc:input port="stylesheet" href="test/transformation1.xsl"/> </xproc:step> <xproc:step name="trans2" type="xproc:XSLT" yax:description="transforms 'b*' elements to 'c*' elmenents."> <xproc:input port="stylesheet" href="test/transformation2.xsl"/> <xproc:parameter name="transformer" value="Saxon6" /> </xproc:step> <xproc:step name="trans3" type="xproc:XSLT" yax:description="transforms 'c*' elements to 'd*' elmenents."> <xproc:input port="stylesheet" href="test/transformation3.xsl"/> <xproc:parameter name="transformer" value="XSLTC" /> </xproc:step> </xproc:pipeline>