Subject: [xsl] Documenting XML -and- viewing an XML tree in IE From: Graham Hannington <Ghannington@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:00:34 -0000 |
I'm looking for advice on: - How to manipulate IE's default ("internal"?) XSLT stylesheet (that it uses to display .xml files that don't refer to XSLT files). - The best way to document an XML schema/DTD, and present that documentation (via XSLT) in XHTML. Specifically: I've been given a couple of MS Word documents that are intended to help users edit a particular XML file. One document contains several screen captures from MS XML Notepad. Each screen capture shows a portion of an example XML file. Below each screen capture is a list that describes the major XML elements and attributes in the screen capture, and their possible values. The other document contains a table of all of the elements, attributes, and their possible values. (So there's some duplication between these two documents.) My job is to convert these Word documents to XHTML (for presentation inside a .chm, and viewed over the Web - in MS Internet Explorer only - and also for XHTML-Apache FOP->PDF, but I'm primarily concerned with the .chm and Web presentation here). I have already converted these Word documents (via XSLT) into XHTML, but the results are essentially the same. In my opinion, this way of documenting an XML file is, er, *less than ideal* (the screen captures! the duplicated descriptions!). What I'd *really like* is an elegant way to, say, embed descriptions in an XML schema (or otherwise link descriptions, in a separate file, to a schema/DTD), and then (via XSLT) automatically generate good-looking, usable documentation in XHTML. I'd appreciate any pointers that people could offer me to any existing approaches. In the immediate term, I'll settle for getting rid of those XML Notepad screen captures. The solution I'm considering is to harness MS IE's default XML display capability (I hope I'm not straying too far from pure XSLT into implementation-land here). For example: <html> ... <p>Here is an example XML file: </p> <iframe src="example.xml" width="100%" /> ... </html> When viewed in IE, the "example.xml" file appears embedded in the page in a scrollable frame (IE offers various ways to customize the appearance of such "inline frames"), using IE's default "clickable/expandable hierarchy" XSLT. What I'd like to do is (either/both): - Specify which of the XML elements in the .xml file appears in the inline frame (I'll have to use IE's frames collection to manipulate the contents of the iframe; but, while I have DHTML programming experience, I've not yet tried this specifically, so any tips from people who have done this will be gratefully received). - Specify which of the XML elements appear expanded (I think this will be trickier, perhaps even impossible: that is, tweaking the behavior of IE's underlying default XSLT stylesheet... of course, if anyone has a copy of that stylesheet - or a similar stylesheet - then that would be a big help, because I could then "parameterize" which elements get expanded, rather than having them all expanded). Regards, Graham Hannington XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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