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Greg Higgins

Subject: Fun with Dick and Jane (Dick XML and Jane XSLT)
Author: Greg Higgins
Date: 26 Feb 2007 08:48 AM

Start with some well formed xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<lists>
<list
path="svn://xxx.yyy.com:abcd/techpapers/enginecrew">
<entry
kind="file">
<name>Exchange_06_OE_RDBMS_Tuning_03.pdf</name>
<size>2024229</size>
<commit
revision="4">
<author>greg_higgins</author>
<date>2007-02-09T18:53:04.418367Z</date>
</commit>
</entry>
<entry
kind="dir">
<name>monographs</name>
<commit
revision="9">
<author>greg_higgins</author>
<date>2007-02-09T19:14:44.225801Z</date>
</commit>
</entry>
<entry
kind="file">
<name>tuning_oe_rdbms_ex_06_final.pdf</name>
<size>222518</size>
<commit
revision="4">
<author>greg_higgins</author>
<date>2007-02-09T18:53:04.418367Z</date>
</commit>
</entry>
</list>
</lists>

add a stylesheet

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

<xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:variable name="fullpath" select="substring-after(/lists/list/@path,'svn://xxx.yyy.com:abcd/')" />

<xsl:template match="/">
<p>
<xsl:copy-of select="$fullpath" />
</p>
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/lists/list/entry">
<xsl:sort select="./@kind" order="descending" data-type="text"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</p>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="entry">
<div class="{@kind}">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@kind = 'dir'">
<a href="http://xxx.yyy.com/yyysvn.cgi?/{$fullpath}{name}"><xsl:value-of select="name"/></a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="./name"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</div>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

create a scenario using the xml

paste in the stylesheet

preview it, (I prefer text)

inadvertently click the wysiwyg tab.

just for the heck of it, while staying on the wysiwyg tab, preview it again.

Hmmmmm, wonder what happened.

Go back to XSLT source tab.

Hmmmm. wonder what happened.

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Tony Lavinio

Subject: Fun with Dick and Jane (Dick XML and Jane XSLT)
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 26 Feb 2007 11:22 AM

Yeah, we aren't all that fond of WYSIWYG.
It works by putting the XML into Internet Explorer, and using
IE behaviors, and when you switch back we read the IE DOM swamp
and recreate the XSLT.
IE isn't always very nice to what it doesn't own.

In future versions of Stylus Studio, we're moving away from WYSIWYG
and instead leaning on the new XML Report module which does not
depend on IE.

The disadvantage is that it means we can't reverse-engineer XSLT to
get HTML out of it, but it has the considerable advantage in that we
can now generate PDFs as well as HTML. And we'll be supporting more
properties than we did in IE also. And it will support XQuery. I
guess that's more than one advantage.

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