Unicorn XSLT Processor Standard Edition version 1.00.00 (alpha)
---------------------------------------------------------------


Contents of this Distribution.
------------------------------

This is the binary distribution for Unicorn XSLT Processor,
Standard Edition version 1.00.00 (alpha). It contains the following
files:

    UXT.EXE        Executable file
    LICENSE.TXT    License Agreement
    DEMO.XML       Demo XML source document
    DEMO.XSL       Demo XSLT stylesheet
    DEMO.OUT       Demo result document
    README         This file

Unicorn XSLT processor implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0.
The final W3C recommendation of 16 November 1999 (REC-xslt-19991116) is
supported.

The product will be referred as "UXT" in this document.


Copyright.
----------

Copyright (C) 2000, Unicorn Enterprises SA
All rights reserved.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, 
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, 
OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

IN NO EVENT WILL UNICORN ENTERPRISES BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR 
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY USE 
OF THE SOFTWARE INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, 
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR COMPUTER 
SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES.


Licensing.
----------

The License Agreement can be found in the file LICENSE.TXT
By installing the product you agree to follow the terms of
this Agreement.


Starting the Processor.
-----------------------

The UXT processor may be started from the command line using the
following command syntax:

    uxt <source_document> <xslt_stylesheet> <result_document>

It needs exactly 3 arguments:

    <source_document>    Source document file name
    <xslt_stylesheet>    XSLT stylesheet file name
    <result_document>    Result document file name

All file names should be specified using the native Win32
notation.

For example,

    uxt test.xml test.xsl test.dat

will process the source document test.xml using the stylesheet test.xsl.
The document test.dat will be generated.


Implementation Notes.
---------------------

With the few exceptions, the whole REC-xslt-19991116 is implemented.
Note, however, that the current release is considered of being alpha
quality and therefore may contain various bugs.

Your feedback about the encountered bugs will be very much appreciated.
Please, e-mail the bug reports to support@unicorn-enterprises.com


Unsupported features.
---------------------

The following features are not supported:

    - the "format-number" function.


XML Parser.
-----------

UXT is currently using non-validating parser which does not process 
external DTD sets and external parsed entities. This may impose
certain limitation on usablilty of those XSLT features that rely
on DTD information stored in the external subset, though the
features themselves are supported by UXT.

The UXT XML parser supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings.


Encoding names.
---------------

The following encoding names are supported by UXT output engine:

    UTF-8
    UTF-16
    ISO-8859-1

UXT treats encoding names as case-insensitive. The default encoding
used for output is UTF-8.


HTML output.
------------

UXT outputs HTML only if this is requested by the xsl:output
top-level element. UXT currently does not support the default HTML 
output as specified in p.16 of REC-xslt-19991116.


URI Support.
------------

UXT supports only URI related to the Win32 local file system.
The syntax is

    file://localhost/<drive>/<directory1>/.../<directotyN>/<filename>

For example, the file

    d:\unicorn\uxsl\samples\test.xml

may be described using the URI

    file://localhost/d/unicorn/uxsl/samples/test.xml

Relative URI are supported as required by REC-xslt-19991116.
Fragment identifiers are not supported.