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 Hi!! Welcome! I think I have a fairly simple question, I guess.. I have a client-server setup. The client gets an XML document in format1. The server understands only format2. So, I need to convert format1 to format2 I understand that this can be done using XSL. XSLT, actually: XSL Transformations ... currently XSLT 1.0 1999-11-19 But I am unaware of any software that would take an XML & an XSL document & perform the conversion. There are a number of tools listed at http://www.xmlsoftware.com/xslt/ ... a number of which are documented for use as servlets. Your situation, though, appears to be slightly reversed in that you have a server application *receiving* an XML file from a client, not *delivering* to the client the result of transforming XML on the server. I gather, then, your server application understands only one XML vocabulary and in order for it to read your client's arbitrary vocabulary you need to translate it. Some XSLT processor writers have released their source code. You can front-end an application with an XSLT processor and have the application deal with the results of transformation without incurring the overhead of serializing the result tree into hard syntax and re-parsing that hard syntax into either a DOM tree or SAX events. Check the tools for how you can deliver the result tree as either a DOM tree or a set of SAX events to some post-process (which in your case is the application). You will need to write a stylesheet for each XML vocabulary on your client you want to translate to the XML vocabulary on your server. Without prejudice to other processors, you might consider looking at XT, Saxon, Xalan or LotusXSL ... I'm not familiar with all of the available processors to know which others might supply source code, nor even if all of the above give you the flexibility you seek on the processing of the result tree. The processor suppliers subscribe to this list ... perhaps they can post the flexibility they provide for applications to receive the content of the result tree. I hope this helps. ............... Ken -- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) Web site: XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML services, training, libraries, products. Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-04-7 Next instructor-led training: 2000-05-02,2000-05-11/12,2000-05-15, - 2000-06-12,2000-06-13,2001-01-27 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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