Re: Is there a tool for auto-generating XSLT scripts f

--- Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:

> Ben Stover wrote:
> > Assume I have a "normal" XML docs. I want to
> display the content of this XML doc on a HTML page
> > well formatted in tables, columns, rows and with
> headers.
> >   
> 
> I'd be very interested in seeing a "normal" XML
> document. XML being a 
> meta language, there does not exist such a thing as
> a normal XML 
> document, let alone a document that would natively
> translate into neat 
> tables, columns and the like (note that XML is by
> nature hierarchical, 
> which rules out the common table layout for most XML
> documents).
> 
> > I could start now to write an appropriate XSLT
> script from scratch.
> >   
> 
> That's what most people do, because the XSLT is
> designed for that.
> 
> > But I could imagine that there is a tool which
> does such a job (=XSLT script/stylesheet writing)
> > for me. I want to use this generated XSLT
> stylesheet later as skeleton/base for possible
> refinements.
> >   
> 
> There are tools that map XML data to layout (which
> may be HTML). Such 
> tools are Altova XML Spy (or Map or what's it
> called), StyleVision, I 
> believe, complex tools like StreamServe and Doc1, I
> also believe BizTalk 
> has a way of displaying its XML logic graphically
> (but not sure it will 
> be HTML). And so on and so on. The best tools are
> probably currently MS 
> Word and Open Office, both have recent versions that
> fully read/write 
> XML (but, as with any of these, that's there "own"
> format of XML). Both 
> Word and Open Office can create HTML from their
> sources.
> 
> > As I first step I only want to avoid writing the
> dumb "main" stuff again and again.
> >   
> 
> That's why people create libraries and link them
> together. Luckily, with 
> XSLT, you do not need so much of these "dumb main
> stuff", as most is 
> already there before you even start. For ready made
> templates and the 
> like for repetitive jobs, consider FXSL or that
> other framework (sorry, 
> forgot the name), and the templates available in
> books like XSLT Cookbook.
> 
> > Is there such a tool ?
> >   
> 
> See above.
> 
> Cheers & happy New Year,
> 
> -- Abel Braaksma
> 
> 



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