Re: [xml-dev] adding markup to tables that have none?

["M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@gmail.com>]

Dr. Kay,

I'm sure this was just short hand assuming we all knew what it meant?

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      </
     </
    </

???

On 4/19/05, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> Use XSLT 2.0:
>  
> <xsl:for-each select="tokenize(unparsed-text($input-file),
> '\n')">
>   <tr>
>     <xsl:variable
> name="regex">(.{5})(.{10})(.{12})(.{3})</xsl:variable
>     <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="$regex">
>       <xsl:matching-substring>
>        <xsl:for-each select="1 to 4">
>          <td><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(.)"/></td>
>        </
>      </
>     </
>    </tr>
> </xsl:for-each>
>  
> Michael Kay
> 
> ________________________________
> From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) [mailto:bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com] 
> Sent: 19 April 2005 17:23
> To: 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
> Subject: [xml-dev] adding markup to tables that have none? 
> 
> 
> This is a tough problem, but it's as old as the use of markup in data files,
> so I'm sure others have tackled it. When you have a table in which all
> layout is achieved using spacing (which of course requires the use of a
> fixed-width font) and you want to add HTML or CALS table markup that
> identifies row and table entry boundaries, what kinds of tools are out there
> besides importing to Excel and saving as XML? 
>  
> I know that such tools would only work with simpler tables, because spanned
> entries, wrapped entries, and other fancy table tricks would cause problems,
> but I thought that there must be something out there, and I can't find
> anything. Any suggestions? 
>  
> thanks,
>  
> Bob
>  
>  


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:: M. David Peterson ::
XML & XML Transformations, C#, .NET, and Functional Languages Specialist