RE: xsl:number problem

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Subject: RE: xsl:number problem
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:51:35 -0400

Charlene,

At 02:30 PM 6/19/2003, you wrote:

I mentioned "xml string" regarding to the StreamGenerator. It is a well-formatted xml tree input as a stream to the StreamGenerator. StreamGenerator will connect to a transformer (here gnumeric + xsl) and serialize it using poi API to Excel. I can take a look at the xml before tranforming it in my log. Basically it is working as it should be.

Good. It's looking at the XML *result* of your transformation that you have to figure out how to do. *Before* Excel picks it up. When you say you "serialize it using poi API" I'm assuming that's an XML serialization. When you say "I can take a look at the xml before transforming it in my log", that sounds like you're looking at the source; but you also need to see the (XML) *result* of the transform.

[source]       [result]
  XML     =>     XML     =>     Excel
          X              Z

The transform is happening as process X. In order to understand what X is doing, you need to look at the XML result before process Z (which brings it into Excel) does anything with it. Once you can look at the output of X as XML, it's possible to see what your stylesheet is doing (not just what process Z does with that).

It might be worth considering running the transformation over sample instances of your source data *outside* your environment, in a conformant processor (not necessarily the same one your process uses), for development and testing. Then when it works, you can roll it in. This is a good way of isolating problems so when things get sticky you don't try to solve the wrong thing. Learning is much easier when you're actually looking at the problem you're trying to solve, and not something else. :->

Cheers,
Wendell


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RE: xsl:number problem, (continued)
- Yan, Charlene - Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:19:22 -0400 (EDT)
  - J.Pietschmann - Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:33:49 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:31:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Yan, Charlene - Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:30:40 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:54:27 -0400 (EDT) <=
    - J.Pietschmann - Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:09:10 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Yan, Charlene - Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
  - David Carlisle - Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:09:13 -0400 (EDT)

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