[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@mitretek.org>
- To: "XML-DEV LIST" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:02:32 -0500
From: Anton Schoultz - ePOS <antons@epos.co.za>
>Hi all,
>Yet another idiot question..
>I have found lots of info on XML, and lots on XSL, but very little on
>combining them!
>
>Hypothetical case; let's say that I have a servlet (eg Java) runing which
>accepts an HTTP POST/GET to query a product catalogue. The servlet queries a
>database and then generates an XML document such as this..
>
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><!DOCTYPE ProdList SYSTEM "http://www.acme.com/dtd/ProdList.dtd">
><ProdList>
> <hdr date="19991201">
> <title>Catalogue as of 1st December</title>
> </hdr>
> <prod code="101" short="keyboard" price="50.00">Qwerky keyboard</prod>
> <prod code="MS1" short="Mouse" price="5.00">Mickey Mouse</prod>
> <prod code="CRT2" short="Monitor" price="100.00">Monitor Lizard</prod>
></ProdList>
>
>
>Let's say we have a DTD available on the web server
>"www.acme.com/dtd/ProdList.dtd"
>which looks like this..
>
><!ELEMENT ProdList ( hdr, prod* ) >
> <!-- header specifies effective date -->
> <!ELEMENT hdr ( title? ) >
> <!ATTLIST hdr
> date CDATA #IMPLIED
> >
> <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)* >
> <!-- each product has a code, short-descripiton and a price. -->
> <!-- the data holds full description -->
> <!ELEMENT prod (#PCDATA)* >
> <!ATTLIST prod
> code CDATA #REQUIRED
> short CDATA #IMPLIED
> price CDATA #IMPLIED
> >
>>
>
>Let's say that a style sheet is also available on www.acme... to ouput the
>catalogue as an HTML table, looks like this ... (which probably has lots of
>errors!)
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org.TR/WD-xsl">
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>
> <xsl:for-each select="hdr">
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY BGCOLOR="#808080">
> <H1>Product List</H1>
> <TABLE BORDER="1" WIDTH="400">
> <TR>
> <TH>Stock Code</TH>
> <TH>Short Description</TH>
> <TH>Long Description</TH>
> <TH>Unit Price</TH>
> </TR>
> <xsl:for-each select="ProdList/prod">
> <TR>
> <TD> <xsl:value-of select="@code"/> </TD>
> <TD> <xsl:value-of select="@short"/> </TD>
> <TD> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </TD>
> <TD> <xsl:value-of select="@price"/> </TD>
> </TR>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </TABLE>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> </xsl:template>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
>How should the servlet change it's ouput (text/xml?) so that the browser (eg
>IE5) will pick-up the XSL and format the xml output into the desired HTML
>table ?
>What changes are required to the above files ?
Why not have the servelet just return the transformed html, as long as you are
running a servelet anyway?
Tom Passin
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
