Re: Generating TOCs or overviews?

[Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Großjohann wrote:
> 
> We have a bunch of XML files, each describing a project.  The files
> are converted to HTML with XT and then shown to the user.  We would
> now like to automatically generate an overview of all projects,
> including links to the project.  (The overview would contain the
> project title and a short description, say, plus a link to the
> complete file.)
> 
> How does one conventionally go about this?
> 
> We concat all files, surround them with a start and end tag (to make
> it valid XML), and then we could use an XSL script to only emit the
> interesting parts.
> 
> But somehow, this doesn't seem to be the right way.  But maybe it is
> the right way?  How should this be done?
> 

You could make this slightly simpler by using XML system entities in
your XML overview, eg:

	<?xml version="1.0"?>

	<!DOCTYPE myOverview [
		<!ENTITY project01 SYSTEM "project01.xml">
		<!-- and the rest of the projects ... -->
  	]>

	<myOverview>

		&project01;
		<!-- and the rest ... -->

	</myOverview>

Francis.


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