Ben Stover wrote:
Assume I have a "normal" XML docs. I want to display the content of this XML
doc on a HTML page
well formatted in tables, columns, rows and with headers.
I'd be very interested in seeing a "normal" XML document. XML being a
meta language, there does not exist such a thing as a normal XML
document, let alone a document that would natively translate into neat
tables, columns and the like (note that XML is by nature hierarchical,
which rules out the common table layout for most XML documents).
I could start now to write an appropriate XSLT script from scratch.
That's what most people do, because the XSLT is designed for that.
But I could imagine that there is a tool which does such a job (=XSLT
script/stylesheet writing)
for me. I want to use this generated XSLT stylesheet later as skeleton/base for
possible refinements.
There are tools that map XML data to layout (which may be HTML). Such
tools are Altova XML Spy (or Map or what's it called), StyleVision, I
believe, complex tools like StreamServe and Doc1, I also believe BizTalk
has a way of displaying its XML logic graphically (but not sure it will
be HTML). And so on and so on. The best tools are probably currently MS
Word and Open Office, both have recent versions that fully read/write
XML (but, as with any of these, that's there "own" format of XML). Both
Word and Open Office can create HTML from their sources.
As I first step I only want to avoid writing the dumb "main" stuff again and
again.
That's why people create libraries and link them together. Luckily, with
XSLT, you do not need so much of these "dumb main stuff", as most is
already there before you even start. For ready made templates and the
like for repetitive jobs, consider FXSL or that other framework (sorry,
forgot the name), and the templates available in books like XSLT Cookbook.
Is there such a tool ?
See above.
Cheers & happy New Year,
-- Abel Braaksma
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