Subject: Re: Generating TOCs or overviews? From: Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:50:07 +0100 |
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. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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