Hi Kamal,
At 02:47 AM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
OK, I was not too good at specifying what I wanted to do. I guess
there are two difficult hurdles that I will need to jump. The first
is having data is multiple files. I thought that maybe I could get
away with something simple (such as looping through all the included
xsd files) but then it occured to me that I can find (for example) a
attribute group, but this attribute group may have a reference to a
simple type which means either searching the file that has the
attribute group or searching the imports of the file. This is doable
I think by passing the document that called the template to the next
template (if you follow). Unfortunately, I think that is a
particularly bad idea from cocoon. That is probably a question for
the cocoon mailing list.
Yes. I can confirm that the document() function doesn't do very well
in Cocoon. Asking for more advice from them is a good idea. Multiple
passes (pipelining) may be necessary, to aggregate the files you need together.
Second problem is pretty printing XML examples. I was going to use
some annotations to store example data and use the annotations to
generate the date. Now, the file searching problem aside, we also
have the problem of printing this nicely, and I am not talking about
simply identing. Most people don't likes reading XML that looks like this:
<element attr1="xxxx" attr2="xxxx" attr3="xxxx" attr4="xxxx"
attr5="xxxx" attr6="xxxx" attr7="xxxx" attr8="xxxx" attr9="xxxxx"
attr10="xxxxxxxx" attr11="xxxxx" attr12="xxxxxxx" attr13="xxxxxx"
attr14="xxxxx">
...
</element>
most people would prefer:
<element attr1="xxxx" attr2="xxxx" attr3="xxxx" attr4="xxxx" attr5="xxxx"
attr6="xxxx" attr7="xxxx" attr8="xxxx" attr9="xxxxx"
attr10="xxxxxxxx" attr11="xxxxx" attr12="xxxxxxx"
attr13="xxxxxx" attr14="xxxxx">
...
</element>
Any ideas how to achieve this? I have none.
XSLT is not well suited for this work, since its processing model
separates the work of transformation (what XSLT does) from the
representation of the results of transformation in a concrete syntax
(what the serializer does). That is, from the XSLT point of view you
need to program or control the serializer, not the transformation.
Cocoon could perhaps integrate a custom serializer if you wrote one,
to create output of any transformation (including no transformation
at all) according to your requirements. Again, they can give more advice.
I've created a system that turns content stored in XML into PDF (through
XSLT to XSL-FO and then through FOP), Word (through XSLT to WordML), HTML
(throught XSLT), JavaHelp (through XSLT), and text (through XSLT).
So, what you have in mind can be done.
I was thinking that maybe I could use something to convert the XML
into PDF, word and HTML inside of cocoon. I think there is support
for FOP in cocoon, what about WordML?
You'd need to write a transformation into WordML. This is not
impossible, though off hand it seems to me it would be just as easy
to transform into a variant of HTML that Word could read and do the
right thing with.
This is a challenging set of assignments: good luck.
Cheers,
Wendell
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