Re: XML->ascii Conversion

Mitch,

Basically, you want something like this:

xsl:
----------------------------------------
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet SYSTEM "xsl-html.dtd">

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<xsl:output method="text" indent="no"/>

<!-- Root template - start processing here -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text>firstname     lastname        phone</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="./*"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="order">
<xsl:value-of select="./customer/firstname/text()"/>
<xsl:text>      </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="./customer/lastname/text()"/>
<xsl:text>              </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="./customer/phone/text()"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
-------------------------------------------------------------------

which will generate this ascii from your xml:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
firstname       lastname        phone
    John        Doe             (510) 555-1212
    Jane        Smith           (916) 555-1212
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Note that my XSL processor (LotusXSL v0.17.0) seems to be ignoring 
my indent="no" instruction and is adding white space before the
first names. Anyone know why this might be? Or is there something
else I missed?

Hopefully your XSL processor will not do this.

Hope this is helpful.

Charlotte Allen

> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:37:28 -0700
> From: Mitch Christensen <mitch_christensen@xxxxxxxxx>
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> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: XML->ascii Conversion
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Thanks for responding.  I'll try to be both specific and consise.
> 
> I want to translate the following...
> 
> <orderlist>
>     <order ordernum="1">
>         <customer>
>             <firstname>John</firstname>
>             <lastname>Doe</lastname>
>             <phone>(510) 555-1212</phone>
>         </customer
>     </order>
>     <order ordernum="2">
>         <customer>
>             <firstname>Jane</firstname>
>             <lastname>Smith</lastname>
>             <phone>(916) 555-1212</phone>
>         </customer
>     </order>
> </orderlist>
> 
> into a tab-delimited ascii file for import into QuickBooks like this...
> 
> firstname    lastname    phone
> John         Doe         (510) 555-1212
> Jane         Smith       (916) 555-1212
> 
> My current model is as follows...
> 
>    qbout.xml-      +-----------+
>               \    |           |
>                +-->+ ixslt.exe +---> outfile.txt
>               /    |           |
> qb2ascii.xsl-      +-----------+
> 
> I just can't seem to get this to work.
> 
> If you have an example or any advice at all, I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mitch
> 
> 
> Mike Brown wrote:
> 
> > > I need to convert XML to straight ascii text.
> >
> > Are you wanting to convert an XML document from one character set encoding
> > like UTF-8 to US-ASCII, so the document is the same, i.e. markup and data,
> > just with some of the characters changed to something suitable for your
> > display ... or are you wanting to emit, for example, just the names of
> > elements and their contents, perhaps like myElement: 'someValue', or what?
> > Be more specific, showing what you have as input and what you want as
> > output.
> >
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