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 From: Anton Schoultz - ePOS <antons@e...> >Hi all, >Yet another idiot question.. >I have found lots of info on XML, and lots on XSL, but very little on >combining them! > >Hypothetical case; let's say that I have a servlet (eg Java) runing which >accepts an HTTP POST/GET to query a product catalogue. The servlet queries a >database and then generates an XML document such as this.. > > ><?xml version="1.0"?> ><!DOCTYPE ProdList SYSTEM "http://www.acme.com/dtd/ProdList.dtd"> ><ProdList> > <hdr date="19991201"> > <title>Catalogue as of 1st December</title> > </hdr> > <prod code="101" short="keyboard" price="50.00">Qwerky keyboard</prod> > <prod code="MS1" short="Mouse" price="5.00">Mickey Mouse</prod> > <prod code="CRT2" short="Monitor" price="100.00">Monitor Lizard</prod> ></ProdList> > > >Let's say we have a DTD available on the web server >"www.acme.com/dtd/ProdList.dtd" >which looks like this.. > ><!ELEMENT ProdList ( hdr, prod* ) > > <!-- header specifies effective date --> > <!ELEMENT hdr ( title? ) > > <!ATTLIST hdr > date CDATA #IMPLIED > > > <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)* > > <!-- each product has a code, short-descripiton and a price. --> > <!-- the data holds full description --> > <!ELEMENT prod (#PCDATA)* > > <!ATTLIST prod > code CDATA #REQUIRED > short CDATA #IMPLIED > price CDATA #IMPLIED > > >> > >Let's say that a style sheet is also available on www.acme... to ouput the >catalogue as an HTML table, looks like this ... (which probably has lots of >errors!) > ><?xml version="1.0"?> ><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org.TR/WD-xsl"> > <xsl:template match="/"> > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <TITLE> > <xsl:for-each select="hdr"> > <xsl:value-of select="."/> > </xsl:for-each> > </TITLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY BGCOLOR="#808080"> > <H1>Product List</H1> > <TABLE BORDER="1" WIDTH="400"> > <TR> > <TH>Stock Code</TH> > <TH>Short Description</TH> > <TH>Long Description</TH> > <TH>Unit Price</TH> > </TR> > <xsl:for-each select="ProdList/prod"> > <TR> > <TD> <xsl:value-of select="@code"/> </TD> > <TD> <xsl:value-of select="@short"/> </TD> > <TD> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </TD> > <TD> <xsl:value-of select="@price"/> </TD> > </TR> > </xsl:for-each> > </TABLE> > </BODY> > </HTML> > </xsl:template> ></xsl:stylesheet> > > > >How should the servlet change it's ouput (text/xml?) so that the browser (eg >IE5) will pick-up the XSL and format the xml output into the desired HTML >table ? >What changes are required to the above files ? Why not have the servelet just return the transformed html, as long as you are running a servelet anyway? Tom Passin xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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