Subject: Re: [xsl] Should XSLT be used to generate a plain text document? From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:30:26 +0200 |
Chris wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to use XSLT to create a > document, like the above example, from an XML file. > > I'm still new to XSL/T so i'm not really sure of its limitations, or > even if this is something i should be attempting with with it. > > When i think about it transforming to plain text doesn't sound right, > but some expert opinions would be good :) XSLT doesn't have any built-in support for wrapping paragraphs and layouting tables. You can do this sort of task in XSLT, but it is a lot of work. I would suggest you little bit different approach. Write stylesheet that will produce HTML output from your XML files. Then use some text-based web browser (lynx, links, ...) to render this HTML into plain text. This way HTML browser will take care of laying out text -- which is the hardest part of your problem. Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@xxxxxxxx http://www.kosek.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Profesionalnm 9kolenm a poradenstvm v oblasti technologim XML. Podmvejte se na na9 novl spu9tln} web http://DocBook.cz Podrobn} pxehled 9kolenm http://xmlguru.cz/skoleni/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
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