Generating HTML scan reports

HTML pages have a strength over other file formats; they can be viewed in the web browsers that are shipped with most devices nowadays. For this reason, users might find it useful to generate scan reports in HTML and upload them somewhere for easy access.

The following recipe will show you how to generate an HTML report from an XML results file.

Getting ready

For this task, we will use a XSLT processor tool. There are a few options available for different platforms, but the most popular one for Unix systems is named xsltproc; if you are running a modern Linux, there is a good chance that you already have it installed. Xsltproc also works on Windows, but it requires that you add some additional libraries to your system.

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