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----- Original Message ----- From: <johnc@i...> To: <owner-xml-dev@x...> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Data Structures and XML > Hi, > > > > We have transferred purchase order document information into XML format > where we show the document to a browser using XSLT . When the user > downloads the file to his browser, he is free to look at it and print the > document out. > > But in order to finish the cycle, the browser users needs to convert the > files into text files or data tables to integrate them with their > internal processes. > > It surprises me that I have not seen anyone else discussing this > operation, working on B to B We have read where people have just said, > convert it into a text file using commas. but we would like to see a small > sample of actual code. as an example of how to do it. Can anyone offer > help. > > John Connolly > > Innovatec > Mexico City > > > > > > > I'm sure something analogous to this question has been asked before, but > the > sheer mass of XML-dev posts in the archive and the lack of an obvious way > to > search them on www.xml.org/archives/xml-dev (the link on > www.xml.org/archives > to xml-dev is broken, BTW) necessitates me to ask a repeated question. > *sigh* > > My situation is this: I have a data structure in Java that contains all > the > necessary info for creating a valid XML document (i.e. serialize the > data-structure into XML) that conforms to an existing XML Schema. It's > even > structured in a node/edge fashion, so the conversion would be easy. I > want to > know what the best way to create that XML document programmatically is, > technology-wise (SOAP, DOM, SAX, etc ?). > > At worst, I can simply write serialize/deserialize methods for my data > structure that grabs the right information from the appropriate places and > writes the XML element/attribute/values down recursively in a tree, but I > really think (hope?) that there are established mechanisms that do this > with a > little bit of set-up/conversion frobbing. Perhaps frobbing a DOM2 > document, > adding appropriate nodes and values, and asking the DOM document to > serialize > itself could produce the desired XML document (just guessing here). > > This also begs at the question of what means is best at creating XML > documents > programmatically. Even better if the same mechanism can read in XML and > recreate the programmatic data structures. > > Thanks for any pointers > /David > > > *************************************************************************** > This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. > To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev > List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > *************************************************************************** > > > > *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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