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Jim Funderburk

Subject: stylus xslt v. xalan (first example)
Author: Jim Funderburk
Date: 18 Oct 2006 07:33 PM

I am using Stylus to learn xml. I am working through examples in book XML in a nutshell. In chapter 8 appears the first example regarding xslt. A simple xml file is transformed using an 'empty' xslt sheet.
My question regards three slightly different ways the output appears:
1. Stylus preview window
2. Saving stylus preview window to disk and looking at it
3. The output generated by xalan applied to same files.
How should I think of the differences?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Here are all the details:
After entering the code into appropriate xml and xsl files in Stylus Studio, the preview window shows all the text in a single line:

Alan Turing computer scientist mathematician cryptographer Richard P Feynman physicist Playing the bongoes.

When I save the preview window to disk it looks like:

Alan
Turing

computer scientist
mathematician
cryptographer

Richard
P
Feynman

physicist
Playing the bongoes

When I use xalan to process the files (not within stylus but within emacs shell under windows xp), the output looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Alan
Turing

computer scientist
mathematician
cryptographer

Richard
P
Feynman

physicist
Playing the bongoes

How should I think about the differences in this very simple case?

Here's the xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<people>

<person born="1912" died="1954">
<name>
<first_name>Alan</first_name>
<last_name>Turing</last_name>
</name>
<profession>computer scientist</profession>
<profession>mathematician</profession>
<profession>cryptographer</profession>
</person>

<person born="1918" died="1988">
<name>
<first_name>Richard</first_name>
<middle_initial>P</middle_initial>
<last_name>Feynman</last_name>
</name>
<profession>physicist</profession>
<hobby>Playing the bongoes</hobby>
</person>

</people>

Here's the xsl file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

</xsl:stylesheet>

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: stylus xslt v. xalan (first example)
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 18 Oct 2006 10:55 PM

Jim,

Be sure to use "Preview text" in the preview window because the IE preview collapses white-spaces.

Hope this helps
Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team

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