This is a helper XSL file that will help create the necessary CRX vault package files to create a package using XSLT. It can be used to create the appropriate jcr_root/.content.xml, META-INF/vault/ properties.xml, filter.xml, and optionally nodetypes.cnd, config.xml, and definition/.content.xml files. To the best of my knowledge the optional files aren't really needed in current versions and are turned off by default, but this isn't based on anything concrete, only trail and error on AEM 5.6.

Installing packages can delete and modify data. If the filters are wrong the package will happily delete a ton of data. This helper is unaffiliated with Adobe.

In your XSL file to generate a package, include the vault.xsl file, set the appropriate parameters and call the vault-files template.

In the header area of your xsl file before any templates are defined:

<xsl:import href="vault.xsl"/>

<!-- Vault Parameters -->
<xsl:variable name="package-name">Sample Package</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="package-description">Sample Package</xsl:variable>

In a template that only runs once such as the below root template:

<xsl:template match="/">

    <!-- Do You Own Package Actions -->
    
    <!-- Include Standard Vault Files -->
    <xsl:call-template name="vault-files" />

</xsl:template>

An example of it's usage can be found at odu/crx-package-xsl-example which is an Ant script that pipelines CSV > XML > Many XML Files > CRX Package Zip.

The Vault Parameters are defined in vault.xsl and easily overriden by top-level variables in your calling XSL file.

package-name Default: "Generated Package", the Package name defined in the properties.xml and optional definition/.content.xml (hereafter known as metadata)

package-description Default: "Generated Package", the description in metadata.

package-root Default: "package/jcr_root", the desired location for the output files for the jcr_root/.content.xml file.

meta-root Default: "package/META-INF", the desired location for the metadate output files in META-INF.

package-group Default: "my_packages", the group in metadata

package-admin Default: "admin", the Package Admin name for the metadata attributes createdBy, lastModifiedBy, and lastWrappedBy.

package-version Default: "", the package version in metadata

package-build-count Default: "1", the buildCount in metadata

package-achandling Default: "merge_preserve", the acHandling in metadata

package-mode Default: "replace", the filter mode in the optional definition/.config.xml. This is overriden if the package-definition-filter-nodes is present.

package-filter Default: "/content/generated", the filter/@root property in both the filter.xml and the filter/f0/@root property in definition/.config.xml. These are individually overriden by the two below node-based options, package-filter-nodes and package-definition-filter-nodes

package-filter-nodes, there is no default but this provides the ability to include multiple filters and complex filter rules as nodes for the filter.xml file. Example:

<xsl:variable name="package-filter-nodes">
    <filter root="/content/package-test-node-1"/>
    <filter root="/content/package-test-node-2"/>
</xsl:variable>

package-definition-filter-nodes, there is no default but this provides the ability to include multiple filters and complex filter rules as nodes for the definition/.content.xml file. This is also not created (nor needed) by default, see package-create-definition option. Example:

<xsl:variable name="package-definition-filter-nodes">
    <f0
        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
        mode="replace"
        root="/content/package-test-node-1"
        rules="[]"/>
    <f1
        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
        mode="replace"
        root="/content/package-test-node-2"
        rules="[]"/>
</xsl:variable>

package-date Default: "current-dateTime()", the metadata dates for jcr:lastModified, created, lastWrapped, and lastUnwrapped.

package-create-root-content Default: "true", Option to supress the creation of the jcr_root/.content.xml file.

package-create-filter Default: "true", Option to supress the creation of the META-INF/vault/filter.xml file.

package-create-properties Default: "true", Option to supress the creation of the META-INF/vault/properties.xml file.

package-create-config Default: "false", Option to create of the META-INF/vault/config.xml file. This is a file labeled as confidential by Adobe and therefore not provided by this library. If it is desired, build a package and unzip, finding the META-INF/vault/config.xml and place beside the vault.xsl file. The vault.xsl will effectively copy this into the META-INF/vault location.

package-create-nodetypes Default: "false", Option to create of the META-INF/vault/nodetypes.cnd file.

package-create-definition Default: "false", Option to create of the META-INF/vault/definition/.config.xml file.