Re: [xsl] Re: Inserting File Attributes Into XSLT Output

[Ganesh Babu N <nbabuganesh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Nathan,

Here is an example how we can extend the XSLT with java. If your are
using java based processor you can even use this method.

http://cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch17s03.html

Regards,
Ganesh

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Nathan Tallman <ntallman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you, everyone for your replies.
>
> @Michele -- I think you're right to do this server-side and not during
> the initial transformation. I do want in in the finding aid, but
> perhaps not the EAD directly, just the HTML.
>
> @Eric -- I think this is the way to go; I will work on the specifics today.
>
> @Emmanuel/@Wendell -- Thanks for the pointers, but I think I'm going
> to do this in javascript, or perhaps php.
>
> Again, thanks to all!
>
> Nathan
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Nathan Tallman <ntallman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Perhaps I'm going about this in the wrong way. Instead of trying to
>> insert the file size at the time of transformation (non-server), maybe
>> I need to insert some code in the output HTML and insert server-side,
>> on-the-fly...
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 16:19 -0500, Nathan Tallman wrote:
>>>> Was trying to find a way to inform the user of the linked
>>>> PDF file size, so they can download instead of opening in the browser,
>>>> if they so choose.
>>> There's an ls2xml script floating around, and David Lee's xmlsh may be
>>> able to do it too, in both cases by creating an auxilliary XML file
>>> containing the file sizes. Or write a short program to do it, depending
>>> on your operating environment (Linux, VMS, Solaris, Microsoft Windows
>>> 3.11, etc.)
>>>
>>> Liam
>>>
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