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--- Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > Ben Stover wrote: > > Assume I have a "normal" XML docs. I want to > display the content of this XML doc on a HTML page > > well formatted in tables, columns, rows and with > headers. > > > > I'd be very interested in seeing a "normal" XML > document. XML being a > meta language, there does not exist such a thing as > a normal XML > document, let alone a document that would natively > translate into neat > tables, columns and the like (note that XML is by > nature hierarchical, > which rules out the common table layout for most XML > documents). > > > I could start now to write an appropriate XSLT > script from scratch. > > > > That's what most people do, because the XSLT is > designed for that. > > > But I could imagine that there is a tool which > does such a job (=XSLT script/stylesheet writing) > > for me. I want to use this generated XSLT > stylesheet later as skeleton/base for possible > refinements. > > > > There are tools that map XML data to layout (which > may be HTML). Such > tools are Altova XML Spy (or Map or what's it > called), StyleVision, I > believe, complex tools like StreamServe and Doc1, I > also believe BizTalk > has a way of displaying its XML logic graphically > (but not sure it will > be HTML). And so on and so on. The best tools are > probably currently MS > Word and Open Office, both have recent versions that > fully read/write > XML (but, as with any of these, that's there "own" > format of XML). Both > Word and Open Office can create HTML from their > sources. > > > As I first step I only want to avoid writing the > dumb "main" stuff again and again. > > > > That's why people create libraries and link them > together. Luckily, with > XSLT, you do not need so much of these "dumb main > stuff", as most is > already there before you even start. For ready made > templates and the > like for repetitive jobs, consider FXSL or that > other framework (sorry, > forgot the name), and the templates available in > books like XSLT Cookbook. > > > Is there such a tool ? > > > > See above. > > Cheers & happy New Year, > > -- Abel Braaksma > > __________________________________ Ihre erste Baustelle? Wissenswertes f|r Bastler und Hobby Handwerker. www.yahoo.de/clever
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