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At 09:51 05/14/2003, ZakMetz wrote:
I like trying out "cutting edge" stuff that I can't do at the day job on
my website. It's a truly never-ending project in which I'm always trying
to find better ways to do things.
What I don't get is how I convert my existing
data in tables into XML efficiently and keep that XML document
up-to-date. Am I missing the point of XML?
Zak,
You need to write XSL templates (stylesheets) to transform your XML data
into HTML and other formats for display, printing, etc. Check out Saxon.
It's a free XSL template processor. To get up to speed on XSLT, I recommend
Michael Kay's book "XSLT Programmer's Reference" ISBN 1-861003-12-9. He is
the original author of Saxon. Don't get discouraged. There's a steep
learning curve. You need to reach a critical mass of knowledge before
anything makes sense. It's worth it though. It's cool (and powerful) stuff.
If your stuck/blessed with a Microsoft shop, IE 5.5 and up will transform
the XML right in the browser. Nobody else seems to be interested in doing
that though, so for general audiences, you'll end up doing the transform on
the server, which is imminently doable, and only marginally more difficult
than doing it in the browser, but a little more resource intensive for you.
hth
Pete Hall
pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.pbhall.us/
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