Chris,
I use XSLT to transform XML into all kinds of documents including .java
(Java) and .js (ECMAScript) source files. About a 1000 lines of XSLT
generate about 4000 lines of source code, which is for me a huge time
savings.
I am not an XSLT expert by any means but I would think XSLT would be the
easiest way to get your XML (presuming it is valid, blah, blah) into the
file you describe.
Douglas Ross
Developer, HTML UI Framework
Kronos
www.kronos.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris [mailto:phatfish(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:27 PM
To: XSL List
Subject: [xsl] Should XSLT be used to generate a plain text document?
Hi, i would like to create some (i guess you would call it) styled, or
formatted plain text.
Eg, some information about a music album: (this probably wont display
correctly, but you get the idea)
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| Im So Good - Im The Best (2005) |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| |
| About: |
| +-----------------------------------------------+ |
| | Text text text text text text text text text | |
| | Text text text text text text text text text | |
| | Text text text text text text text text text | |
| | Text text text text text text text text text | |
| | Text text text text text text text text text | |
| | Text text text text text text text text text | |
| | Text text more text displayed by a loop. | |
| +-----------------------------------------------+ |
| |
| Tracklist: |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| | # | Artist/Title | 00:00 | |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| | 01 | Im So Good - The First Track | 05:22 | |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| | 02 | Im So Good - The 2nd Track | 05:36 | |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| | 03 | Im So Good - Track Three | 07:24 | |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| | 04 | Im So Good - Four is my Fav | 04:55 | |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| | 05 | Im So Good - Truncation may hap..| 04:18 | |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| | 06 | Im So Good - Last is Best | 03:12 | |
| +----+----------------------------------+-------+ |
| |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
I would like to know if it is possible to use XSLT to create a
document, like the above example, from an XML file.
I'm still new to XSL/T so i'm not really sure of its limitations, or
even if this is something i should be attempting with with it.
When i think about it transforming to plain text doesn't sound right,
but some expert opinions would be good :)
Thanks
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