[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] [no subject]FWIW Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services ----- Original Message ----- From: <didoss@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:04 AM Subject: feasibility of HTML input > I'm new to the list and to xsl and xslt. > > The goal of this e-mail is to just confirm the feasibility of my endeavor. It > would be a bonus if someone pushed me in a helpful direction - or I can keep > wandering, which is ok too. > > I haven't found much about the feasibility of using an html file as input. I > didn't find anything useful through Google searches, though being new to xsl and > xslt, I might have not entered the right phrase. The 2 O'Reilly books that I > have also didn't clearly direct me towards a solution - but also didn't say that > it couldn't be done. > > Digging through the FAQ, here, I *did* finally find a couple references to using > HTML as input. That at least gave me confidence that this is not a completely > insane idea. I didn't get a clear idea of the requirements, but definitely > understood that I should TIDY my html before trying to parse it. :) > > So, here I am thinking that it might be possible, but I have spent a bit of time > digging, and decided that I might want to check with the experts before spinning > wheels further. > > ========================================= > Is this feasible,...worthwhile,...better done with another utility? > ========================================= > > My team produces nightly JUnit reports and Emma coverage reports for our code. > I have added a task to copy off the top-level html pages for these results for > historical purposes. I would like to be able to run a transform across the > files in the respective directory (one transform for JUnit and one for Emma) to > create summary files (probably comma delimited, to be able to pull into Excel). > The summary file could then be used to recognize and learn from trends in these > results. > > If this is feasible and worthwhile, and not better done with another utility, I > will send my current xsl and what I'm running into with it. > > Thanks for any advice and/or direction you can provide, > Dianne
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