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Re: Newbie: XML to ascii

• From: Francis Norton <francis@r...>
• Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 11:54:35 +0100

Check XSLT (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt) as a language for reading in XML
and XML "style sheets" (actually programs) and generating XML, HTML or
ASCII. At its simplest you can write an XSLT stylesheet as a
fixed-structure document that simply gets values merged into it, which
sounds like what you're looking for.

There are many good and free XSLT engines, I use instant SAXON
(http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon) or the latest MSXML3 drop from
MS. And if you go ahead with it, there is a good XSL newsgroup
(http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list).

Francis.

robert maier wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a newbie to XML, so my question might sound strange to you.
> 
> I am wandering, if I could use XML to generate ascii files. I am not quite
> sure, whether XML in conjunction with an XML parser would be appropriate.
> 
> In particular, I want to create reports, that are defined by fixed texts
> with certain portions variable and to be replaced by parameters.
> Actually this is the classical string substitution, as it has been done "for
> ages", putting keys into a text, parsing the text and replacing it with a
> value.
> 
> Does it make sense to work with XML instead? And if so, could someone
> give me a hint on how to do it the most appropriate way?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Robert Maier
> 
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