RE: using different xsl based on xml

Hi, Mike

I might not make myself clear at first mail. I have a web application, see,
take
customer order form, which is in xml format. But different customer has
their own format.

I would like to get your opinion. Is it a good way that I use different DTD
to validate
each xml that customer uploads through the web application (Servlet maybe)?
If it passes certain DTD validation, I will use the xsl especially for that
DTD to do
the transformation. But this sounds like I need to do java programming. Can
I use XSLT to do similar thing without bothering to write Java program?

Thank you,

-John

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Kay
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:21 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  using different xsl based on xml

> My question is, how can I tell where the xml comes from...

That rather depends on how your customers are sending it.

Typically, you could ask different customers to send it to different
mailboxes, or you could look at the email headers, or you could use a proper
messaging service like MQSeries or MSMQ.

If none of those mechanisms are possible, then you will have to work it out
from the XML content: sounds as if the first phase should be an XSLT
stylesheet that examines a document, determines what type it is, and adds
this information to some kind of envelope.

Mike Kay


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