Re: Looking for "real-world" XML documents

Dimitre 

Take a look at: http://www.neurogems.org/fetchplos/
"Downloading PLoS papers in XML
This page describes how to download large numbers of XML papers from the PLoS
Biology website. 

 Tommie

On Oct 14, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks,
> Do you have any particular examples of XML documents that reflect
> real-world objects/situations? In SQL they use the AdventureWorks
> database, but it is huge.
>
> What I am looking for is one or more documents that are not too-big
> and can be used for solving non-trivial problems and demonstrating
> XSLT ad/or XPath features. I remember seeing long ago in the xsl-list
> such documents that reflect:
>
> - a set of books, articles and authors, and an article can have more
> than one author.
>
> - results of a football league
>
> - purchase order and invoices and set of products with prices and
> discounts, ... etc.
>
> But I cannot find these... :(
>
> I would greatly appreciate it if you can point me to such interesting
> XML documents.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
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