Outputting XML?

[Mitch Christensen <mitch_christensen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm sorry.  I know there is probably and obvious and well documented answer
to this question, but I sure can't find it.

How do I take XML input, add some nodes, and write out the expanded XML?

i.e. intput,
<orderlist>
    <order><price>12.95</price></order>
    <order><price>15.95</price></order>
    <order><price>7.95</price></order>
</orderlist>

resulting in...

<orderlist>
    <order><price>12.95</price><newprice> 10.95</newprice></order>
    <order><price>15.95</price><newprice> 12.95</newprice></order>
    <order><price>7.95</price><newprice> 10.95</newprice></order>
</orderlist>

Thanks in advance.
-Mitch

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Paul Tchistopolskii writes:
>  > > Possibly I am going mad, but the test.fo and test.pdf here seem to
>  > > illustrate something else entirely. Curiously, it is something I am
>  > > interested in, but it isnt running heads....
>  >
>  > Not just curiosly. We were taking into account one of  your
>  > old letters, thinking that you are talking mostly about the problem
>  > which is common to both usecases and makes is OK  to be
>  > solved on the level of FOs.
> Ah, it was not coincidence. Thanks, anyway, for explaining that old
> point (which I had not solved in the meanwhile).
>
> in case people haven't looked at Paul's file, he is saying that I can
> do `fillers' like
>
>   Introduction ................................. 63
>
> with something like this:
>
> <fo:block>
> <fo:inline-sequence inhibit-line-breaks="true">Introduction
>  <fo:inline-rule rule-style="dotted" rule-thickness="2pt"/>
>   63</fo:inline-sequence>
> </fo:block>
>
> (back to running headers).
>
> I think you and James have been over this in the meanwhile, so just to
> confirm
>
>  > You will prepare the XML testcase and the expected
>  > result of rendering in PDF format using the existing
>
> I could do this, obviously, using an XSLT spec which outputs LaTeX,
> but since we all agree its `simply' a flaw in XSL FO, I am not sure it
> would help much.
>
>  > day-to-day formatter ( also I'm sure that you'l  use some
>  > package around the core formatter. I don't think there is
>  > some formatter that supports such an exotoc fuctionlaity
>  > in the core API ).
> its in the core of TeX, not surprisingly, being a standard feature of
> a formatter.... I cannot actually think of a formatter I have used
> that does not handle it. But then most of my typesetting has been done
> with TeX.
>
> for what its worth, I have typeset maybe 20 serious books for
> myself and other people, and I cannot think of one which did not have
> running heads which depended on the section heading, which might
> change anywhere on the page. But then I cannot think of one which did
> not have several dozen tables, either :-}
>
> Sebastian
>
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