RE: Processing source in a text format : visual aid

Once you've written your XMLReader, you can just apply an identity
stylesheet to show the equivalent XML.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Siarhei
> Biarozkin
> Sent: 19 April 2002 14:18
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> Subject:  Processing source in a text format : visual aid
>
>
> Hello group,
> I've a following question regarding text transformation,
> where text is not a
> well-formed XML, but just a sequence of characters , say, a
> comma-separated
> text file.
>
> As I've read in an excellent book on XSLT, one way to do it
> is to write my
> own XMLReader, which will parse the text and send SAX events
> to the XSLT
> processor, which will apply a stylesheet to this stream.
>
> We'd like our customers be able to create their own
> stylesheets when they
> wish so, the problem is they can't see the result of the
> original text being
> transformed into a well-formed xml. The text itself will be
> coming from the
> simple device.
>
> So, it there any toolkit available, which can help in visualizing the
> process ? Ideally it would allow to install a custom
> XMLReader, which will
> accept text strings as parameters, and then this toolkit will show the
> resulting XML fragment, and then it would be much easier to
> build stylesheet
> for these fragments.
>
> Thanks
> Siarhei Biarozkin
>
>
>
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