Re: Some Questions (2nd try)

> Or use MS Word98/2000
> HTMLtoRTF.js
> ----------------------------------------------------
> var word =    new ActiveXObject("word.Application");
> var doc =     word.Documents.Open("infile.html");
> word.Documents("infile.html").saveAs("outfile.rtf", 6);
> doc.close();
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Then you only need one stylesheet ;-))
>

This is great, but if you want more control over the format of the output,
you might want to plunge into RTF itself (the payoff is pretty nice -- you
can make headers, footers, do lots of stuff if you want).  You'd do an XSL
sheet to transform into RTF and write the file out as a .rtf or spit it into
the browser with content-type text/rtf.  IE 5, at least, recognizes this and
loads a cute little Word plug-in by default (although I've only tried it on
computers that are also loaded with Word.  Can somebody confirm that this
plug-in ships with IE 5?  I think the browser just loads Microsoft's Word
viewer, but I haven't looked into it very much).

> >    2.- Imagine the ouput of an SQL query with a 'group by' sentence,
> >and maybe, with total fileds for each group of rows. For each group, I
> >don't want to repeat the fileds with the same values (the fields that
> >define the group). Can XSL-T do something like that?:
> >        a) To control when some values changing and
> >        b) Do the totals of some fields, the totals for each group of
> >rows.

You might try Saxon.  It has a group extension.

> >        Should be <xsl:variable> the solution in order to do something
> >like that?
> >
> >    3.- Imagine I have some data, from the DB via JDBC, in some Java
> >Classes, in my own object model (with this data stored in). And I want
> >to serialize this data, or a subset of it, in an XML document. Can I use
> >
> >a SAX parser?, or have I to do it myself. I mean, Can I pass my object
> >model to the SAX parser?

There's a lot of information about building objects in Java from XML and
some nice tutorials on Sun's site.  You might also look at the code for John
Cowan's DOM parser (http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML), to which Steve Tinney
pointed me as I was trying to exactly what you describe.

Dave Halsted

> >    Sorry if some are silly or very basic questions, I'm defining my
> >carreer final project and I want to use the XML-JAVA-SQL technology in
> >the best way.
> >
> >    Thanks a lot, any inputs will be wellcome.
> >
> >    Omar Lopez.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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