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+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.collection.plugin.base;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
+import org.apache.spark.util.LongAccumulator;
+import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
+import org.mockito.junit.jupiter.MockitoExtension;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.aggregation.AbstractVocabularyTest;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.aggregation.common.AggregationCounter;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.mdstore.MetadataRecord;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.mdstore.Provenance;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.transformation.xslt.XSLTTransformationFunction;
+import eu.dnetlib.enabling.is.lookup.rmi.ISLookUpException;
+
+@ExtendWith(MockitoExtension.class)
+public class BaseTransfomationTest extends AbstractVocabularyTest {
+
+	private SparkConf sparkConf;
+
+	@BeforeEach
+	public void setUp() throws IOException, ISLookUpException {
+		setUpVocabulary();
+
+		this.sparkConf = new SparkConf();
+		this.sparkConf.setMaster("local[*]");
+		this.sparkConf.set("spark.driver.host", "localhost");
+		this.sparkConf.set("spark.ui.enabled", "false");
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	void testBase2ODF() throws Exception {
+
+		final MetadataRecord mr = new MetadataRecord();
+		mr.setProvenance(new Provenance("DSID", "DSNAME", "PREFIX"));
+		mr.setBody(IOUtils.toString(getClass().getResourceAsStream("record.xml")));
+
+		final XSLTTransformationFunction tr = loadTransformationRule("xml/base2odf.transformationRule.xml");
+
+		final MetadataRecord result = tr.call(mr);
+
+		System.out.println(result.getBody());
+	}
+
+	private XSLTTransformationFunction loadTransformationRule(final String path) throws Exception {
+		final String xslt = new SAXReader()
+				.read(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(path))
+				.selectSingleNode("//CODE/*")
+				.asXML();
+
+		final LongAccumulator la = new LongAccumulator();
+
+		return new XSLTTransformationFunction(new AggregationCounter(la, la, la), xslt, 0, this.vocabularies);
+	}
+
+}