Re: [xsl] XML Data Islands, XML Menu Trees and other stuff

[xptm@xxxxxxx]

I'm still playing around, but with limited succcess. I tryed to work with
both
<div> and <iframe> but they work diferently in IE / FF. I first used the div
innerText but it seems it won't work with FF. Now, with the iframes it kinda
work, but it still needs a lot of work.

If you want to see a *very early* example look at
http://gti.clientes.gtinformatica.pt/Site/java/menus.xml with the xsl in
http://gti.clientes.gtinformatica.pt/Site/java/drawmenus.xsl but it's so ugly
i'm kind of embaressed...

*OFF TOPIC* on other lists it was brought to my attention that it's not
polyte
to sign posts with just a alias like "xptm", so just wanted to say that my
name
is Antsnio Mota, and i live near Lisbon, Portugal. I work with a lot of
things
including Java and XSL, wich i like very much.

One of the projects where i got much help from this list is in
http://gti.clientes.gtinformatica.pt/Site/java/GTJDemo.html , it's a pre-demo
version, i hope i can put there a description of the XSLT work envolved.

Best regards.




Quoting xptm@xxxxxxx:

> Wow, that looks great :)
>
> In the meantime i've been playing with the XmlHttpRequest and it really
works
> on
> IE and FF, at least. So it seems it's not dificult to get the XML files
> without
> a all trip to the server.
>
> Now for XSLTing the XML i think i'll wait for your example...
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Citando "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > xptm@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > >Hi David, and all.
> > >
> > >OT i just went to XSLT:Blog and where it should appear (i added the
> spaces)
> > >I ' m
> > >appears
> > >I b $ (TM) m
> > >
> > >
> > Both IE and Firefox(and Im assuming other Mozilla based browsers) that
> > are set to auto detect encoding decide that utf-8 is actually
> > iso-8859-1.  Given that they both do it my assumption is that there is
> > some obscure line in the HTML causing this to happen as I find it
> > strange that both algorithms would read the byte stream in the same way
> > and determine iso-8859-1 instead of the proper utf-8.  The charset is
> > clearly defined as utf-8
> >
> > <meta snip... content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
> >
> > So I really dont know whats up...  I cant be the only MT install that has
> > this problem so as soon as I have a chance I will look further into it.
> >
> > In the mean time manually change your browser to recognize the page as
> UTF-8
> > and youll be fine, all be it temporary.
> >
> > >Now on-topic, i've been searching for info in places like w3schools, and
> it
> > >gives me the impression that XML data islands and related techniques are
> > very
> > >tyied to IE browser, like HTML elements binding, XML HTTP requests,
etc...
> > Also
> > >i saw that XML data islands has nothing to do with W3C...
> > >
> > >Is this correct?
> > >
> > >
> > No... It does take some trickery but its possible and really quite easy
> > once you understand the process that needs to take place.
> >
> > >My boss suddenly give a high priority to this going-to-be project, so
let
> me
> > >elaborate a little more for you to see if this falls in your techniques.
> > >
> > >Do you think you techniques can be adaptable to this, or should i start
> > looking
> > >elsewere?
> > >
> > >Regards.
> > >
> > >Basically, my intention is to have a menu tree that, when cliked on a
> node,
> > >would do a trip to the server to get some XML that could be a sub-menu
> > >definition to display dinamically, or a XML ResultSet from a db to
display
> > via
> > >XSL/CSS/CSS2, or even a HTML page to display on a frame (altougt i don't
> > like
> > >frames). I want to do this dinamically, specially without refreshing the
> > >browser, as this has a tendency to become very heavy.
> > >
> > >
> > In fact this a perfect example of how this could be used...  In fact
> > that would be a simple demo to quickly create... instead of stressing
> > over this larger piece let me feed it to you in bit size morsels as it
> > will probably be easier to understand initially and from there is just
> > adding one more source of data at a time and using that data to
> > coordinate proper context between the elements between rendered...
> >
> > Give me a bit to rethink how best to showcase this and I will return
> > with a sample...
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > <M:D/>