XSLT Serializer

To make it easier to create serializer plugins for the BIMserver, you can also define the serialization logic in an XSLT which takes an IFCXML file as the source file.

Creating the plugin

Note: Is is usually a lot easier to start from existing code, have a look at the "Cobie2Serializer" project for example.

• Follow the Plugin Development page
• Add a dependancy to the "XsltSerializer" project
• Create an xslt file in the plugin-project's root
• Change the "TestPlugin" file:

	private boolean initialized;
	private URL url;

	@Override
	public void init(PluginManager pluginManager) throws PluginException {
		url = pluginManager.getPluginContext(this).getResourceAsUrl("[NAME OF YOUR XSLT FILE]");
		initialized = true;
	}

	@Override
	public String getName() {
		return getClass().getName();
	}

	@Override
	public String getDescription() {
		return "Cobie2";
	}

	@Override
	public String getVersion() {
		return "1.0";
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isInitialized() {
		return initialized;
	}

	@Override
	public Set<Class<? extends Plugin>> getRequiredPlugins() {
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public EmfSerializer createSerializer() {
		XsltSerializer xsltSerializer = new XsltSerializer();
		xsltSerializer.setXsltUrl(url);
		return xsltSerializer;
	}

	@Override
	public String getDefaultSerializerName() {
		return "[NAME OF YOUR SERIALIZER]";
	}

	@Override
	public String getDefaultExtension() {
		return "[EXTENSION OF YOU XSLT TARGET FORMAT]";
	}

	@Override
	public String getDefaultContentType() {
		return "[CONTENT TYPE OF YOUR XSLT TARGET FORMAT]";
	}

Example project structure: http://bimserver.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/images/cobieproject.png

Adding XSLT parameters

You can pass parameters to the XSLT engine the following way. You have to add this code to the init method.

	xsltSerializer.addParameter(new XsltParameter("topic", "component"));