Subject: [xsl] XSL Document Creation tools From: John Aschenbrenner <jaschenbrenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:44:28 -0700 |
During the course of my employ I often find myself creating HTML based reports using XML and XSL. I often wish that there were a good XSL Document Creation tool that I could use to do this. Perhaps if I lay out the steps of my report creation all will become clear. First I create an html document as a mock up for my report. During this phase I am able to us WYSIWYG html creation tools that simplify this process. The second phase of the report generation endeavor I create the XSL document. It is during this phase that I separate the static (display - style) HTML tags from the actual dynamic data that will be displayed in the HTML report. I do this by leaving the static HTML tags as literals in the XSL and creating small callable templates with params for the dynamic information. This part of the process is very mundane and consists of a lot of cutting and pasting of document text in order to create the necessary XSL document. It is this part of the report creation that I wish I could somehow automate. The third and final leg of this journey is to create that actual XML that will be transformed. This is relatively simple in that I just create the proper SQL statement(s) to retrieve the data into an XML document. If there were a tool that I could use to help generate the XSL it would greatly reduce my time in producing a report. I envision the way that a tool of this sort would be used is as follows - Starting with a given html document being viewed as rendered by a browser you would go through the document and highlight the dynamic data. At this point some sort of compilation or other rendering would take place and voila an XSL document would be produced. Does anyone know if such a tool exists? Thanks In Advance, John Aschenbrenner Ignition Mortgage Technology Solutions, Inc. jaschenbrenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ph: (253)858-8955 x 239 http://www.ignitionmts.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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