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RE: XML Document to ascii text file

• From: "Robert C. Lyons" <boblyons@u...>
• To: 'Didier PH Martin' <martind@n...>, 'Mallikarjuna Sangappa' <malliks@r...>, "'xml-dev@i...'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:41:18 -0400

Didier wrote:
	"Can you explain how with just a simple example. ...
	 How would you transform this XML document above into a plain asci text? 
	 Can you show it with a XSL script?"

Didier,

Oops. I sent that last message too soon.

See below for an example of an XSLT stylesheet that converts an XML document
into a plain ASCII text file. The XML document is not the same as yours,
but it's fairly simple.

Here's the XML document:

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<contacts>
    <contact>
        <full_name>Nancy Magill</full_name>
        <email_address>lil.magill@b...</email_address>
        <phone_number>(100) 555-9328</phone_number>
    </contact>
    <contact>
        <email_address>molly.jones@o...</email_address>
        <full_name>Molly Jones</full_name>
    </contact>
    <contact>
        <phone_number>(200) 555-3249</phone_number>
        <full_name>Penny Lane</full_name>
        <email_address>plane@b...</email_address>
    </contact>
</contacts>

Here's the XSLT stylesheet that converts the XML document into
an ASCII text file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
    indent-result="no" default-space="strip">

    <xsl:template match="/contacts/contact">
        <xsl:text>[contact]&#xD;&#xA;</xsl:text>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="full_name"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="email_address"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="phone_number"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="full_name">
        <xsl:text>name=</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        <xsl:text>&#xD;&#xA;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="email_address">
        <xsl:text>email=</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        <xsl:text>&#xD;&#xA;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="phone_number">
        <xsl:text>phone=</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        <xsl:text>&#xD;&#xA;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is the ASCII text file that is produced by the XSLT processor:

[contact]
name=Nancy Magill
email=lil.magill@b...
phone=(100) 555-9328
[contact]
email=molly.jones@o...
name=Molly Jones
[contact]
phone=(200) 555-3249
name=Penny Lane
email=plane@b...


Hope this helps.

Bob

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Bob Lyons
EC Consultant
Unidex Inc.
1-732-975-9877
boblyons@u...
http://www.unidex.com/