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No, sorry, it's not published. It wasn't slides, it was a live
demonstration.
Michael Kay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Fitzgerald [mailto:mikefz@wyeast.net]
> Sent: 12 May 2004 15:52
> To: Michael Kay
> Cc: 'Igor'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] converting a proprietary config file to XML
>
> This is a nice hack. Are your slides for this presentation
> published somewhere? -Mike
>
> Michael Kay wrote:
>
> > This sort of conversion can be done very nicely in XSLT
> 2.0: I showed a very
> > similar example in my tutorial at XML Europe.
> >
> > 1. read the file using the unparsed-text() function
> > 2. split it into lines using the tokenize() function
> > 3. analyze each line using the <xsl:analyze-string> instruction
> > 4. group the resulting lines hierarchically using the
> <xsl:for-each-group>
> > instruction, within a recursive template so you do the
> grouping repeatedly
> > at each level of hierarchy.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Igor [mailto:logastellus@yahoo.com]
> >>Sent: 12 May 2004 14:15
> >>To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> >>Subject: [xml-dev] converting a proprietary config file to XML
> >>
> >>Perhaps someone here can help me? I've posted this on
> >>newsgroups and thru IRC and no responses so far.
> >>
> >>I have a "*"-delimited config file for our internal
> >>app. The syntax is as follows:
> >>
> >>param1*param2*value=3
> >>param1*param2*param3*value=4
> >>param1*value=1
> >>param2*value=3
> >>
> >>etc..
> >>
> >>What's the best way of doing this? As seen from the
> >>example above, this lends itself to a very nice
> >>tree-based representation. So I tried using an
> >>acyclic graph but got bogged down converting it to
> >>tree, the
> >>original idea was to first convert it to a tree, then
> >>traverse the tree xml-tagging it along the way. Is
> >>that a good idea?
> >>
> >>Are there better ideas? Thanks for your help.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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