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> We're planning on receiving XML data and transforming it > to delimited > format and have seen how we can do this using XSL and > XSLT. We'd like > to ease the creation of XSL files by using an off the > shelf GUI. Any > ideas of what we should be looking at bearing in mind we'd like to > create delimited files as the output. There are a few tools around now that act as visual development environments for XSLT. They vary in capabilities and approach. Take a look at www.xmlsoftware.com. > When receiving XML data in we need to find a way of validating it. > Initially we're looking at just validating data types (character, > integer, decimal, etc. is this possible using XSL? If it > is, how would > we be able to assign error codes to validations that fail? You can do validation using XSLT: just regard it as a transformation from a source document to an error document. For a sophisticated approach, look at schematron. > We're also planning on taking delimited output and > creating XML, does > XSL and XSLT cater for this? > If the input isn't XML, then the first step is to turn it into XML. A simple Perl script may be the best approach. Once it's in XML, use XSLT to get it into the structure you want to use. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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