We illustrate the QuiXTool-Suite for querying and transforming XML
stream. In particular, we show how to
use XPath and XSLT for querying and transforming Twitter streams.

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Run XPath and/or XSLT over Twitter’s global stream of Tweet data.

Usage:
twitter –xpath [–output file] [–time timeInSeconds]
twitter –xslt [–output file] [–time timeInSeconds]

XPath

Use XPath to select any subtree of the stream. E.g. all english tweets:

> twitter --xpath “//tweet[./object/lang[contains(.,’en’)]]”

Be aware that XPath queries selecting twees output a huge tweet-subtree. For displaying only the text of tweets you may run the following query:

> twitter --xpath “//tweet/object/text[contains(.,’love’)]/value/string/text()”

As the Twitter stream is infinite, you may want to set the time of processing (in seconds). The default processing time is 5 seconds.

> twitter --xpath “//tweet/object/text[contains(.,’love’)]/value/string/text()” --time 60

XSLT

Transform Twitter’s stream via XSLT. E.g. create a table with all tweets containing ‘love’ using a sample style-sheet “tweetsInTable”, or create and upload your own style-sheet.

> twitter --xslt /share/tweetsInTable.xslt --output out.html --time 60

Troubleshooting

Problem:
TwitterException when connecting to twitter.

Test Machine is out of sync.

Solution:
Contact QuiX-Proc team: xml-streaming@inria.fr