Re: [xsl] reading a .xsv file in xslt

Subject: Re: [xsl] reading a .xsv file in xslt
From: a kusa <akusa8@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:00:49 -0600
Thanks so much for all your responses!

Andrew, I will try your stylesheet and let you know if I have any questions.



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 3 February 2010 10:27, ac <ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I am not sure that I understand well your point on QNames and
>> normalize-space, as if the header line is missing from the csv, picking it
>> up to try to derive element or attribute names from it is bound to
generate
>> invalid QName errors,
>
> I thought you were saying there was occasionally a single blank line
> before the header line?   As it stands the transform expects there to
> be a header line... if you know your csv doesnt have a header line,
> then its simple to modify the transform to put one in.  If you want it
> to handle a unknown mixture of csv with and without headers, then you
> are going beyond its original goal.
>
>> '&#xa;' indeed displays as space in html but wouldn't '\r?\n' be more
>> portable?
>
> Yes, I have had the intention of correcting that for a while now :)
>
> http://markmail.org/message/64tnjaaarhu3buhk
>
> ...but the people that pay get the priority.
>
>> As a note on extending your example, the name for <root> and <row> could
be
>> parametrized and I think that I would move <root> further outside the
nested
>> code and allow $csvpath to be a space-delimited name list, for example, to
>> easily support csv file merge into the tree, by simply looping over the
>> tokenized file paths.
>
> I would suggest that rather do it all in one transform, you leave the
> csv-to-xml as one step, and do any further processing, such as
> combining csvs, or transforming the xml into some other xml, as
> subsequent steps in the pipeline.
>
>> Your code offers a good basic design and I especially like your regex
token
>> grabber.
>
> That was done with the help of this list :)
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
> Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

Current Thread