Re: [xml-dev] Converting XML

[Prakash Yamuna <techpy@yahoo.com>]

Consider the following example:

<Book>

   <BookTitle>blah1</BookTitle>

   <Authors>

       <Author>blah2</Author>

       <Author>blah3</Author>

   </Authors>

</Book>

 

Now if you wanted to convert the above to:

<em class="Book">

   <em class="BookTitle">blah1</em>

   <em class="Authors">

       <em class="Author">blah2</em>

       <em class="Authror">blah3</em>

   </em>

</em>

 

 

Then with the first method you would have a template rule for "Book", "BookTitle", "Authors", "Author"

 

Instead you could perhaps write a generic template where it works for any element name...

 

Again I would stick with the first solution if the requirement is simple and it is a one-off scenario.

 

The more generic one is more applicable when you want to leverage the same xslt for xml documents independent of element names, etc.

So what I had in mind in terms of "scale" was pretty much the number of template rules you would have to write.

 

If you are new to XSLT then again you may be better off with the first solution it is simple and easy to implement and understand.

 

prakash
tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote:

>If your requirement is more generic in that replace specific element
>names with a more generic for all element
>names, then solution provided below won't scale. You may want to use
>a more generic template instead...
>

prakash:

Thanks for the advice -- but, I'm not sure as to what "scale" means
in this problem.

Please understand that compared to most of the others on this list, I
flounder around the bottom of the geek scale.

tedd

ps: I wonder if anyone on this list knows where the term "geek" came from?
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