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Boniolopez28-Oct-04 2:55

28-Oct-04 2:55

Hi Dave,
thank you for your very clear answer in my previous posting. Now I understand the idea, and what I have to do.
Algthouth I don't think, that it is worse to post my XSL errors into forum so far Smile | :)

. . The question is how can I debug the output of the transformation myself. I want to see the HTML code, which is generated after the transformation, but if I make "show source" in the IE, it shows the XML before the transformation. Is it some magic too, whic looks like
magic_tool input.xml input.xsl >output.txt

Thanks in advance,
boni

Re: HTML from XML

DavidNohejl28-Oct-04 6:10

DavidNohejl

28-Oct-04 6:10

Boniolopez wrote:
if I make "show source" in the IE, it shows the XML before the transformation.
Of course it does. Original XML is real source stored in file, isn't it? If you want to see transformed source, transform your XML into HTML, then save transformed HTML into file and only then open this file in IE. If you work in .NET, magic tool can be XslTransform class for System.Xml.Xsl namespace. Write little app which saves transformed XML into HTML file or something like that. With MSDN or google it won't be difficult task.
David

Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)

Re: HTML from XML

Boniolopez28-Oct-04 9:29

Boniolopez

28-Oct-04 9:29

Thank you for your great help.

Visualize XML

Boniolopez26-Oct-04 11:21

Boniolopez

26-Oct-04 11:21

Hi all,
am new with xml, so may be the question is not very correct. I have the xlm description of the electonic shema. This description includes nodes (i.e. transistors, resistors ...) and wires. Now I want to visualize the circuit with intenet explorer. I have somehow to make IE to understand, that when it meet in XML transistor it has to take the picture transistor.gif... After all elements are placed it has to draw the wires in the optimal way (route on the fly?I have an algorithm but don't know where to put it in xml).
I have absolutely no idea how XML can be visualized. Please could you give me the starting point.
Thanks,
Boni

Re: Visualize XML

DavidNohejl27-Oct-04 10:17

DavidNohejl

27-Oct-04 10:17

hi Boni,
oh oh... i only see lots of xslt and javascript and CSS Cry | :((

or plug-in to IE. Yeah, plug-in shoud be better option, but still it's quite difficult I think (I never made any plugin). At least, it is possible to archive your goal Wink | ;)

However, IMO its far easier to make win app for it instead of use IE.
best regards,
David 'DNH' Nohejl

Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)

Re: Visualize XML

Boniolopez27-Oct-04 23:02

Boniolopez

27-Oct-04 23:02

Hi David, hi all
thank you very much for your reply.
I have now easier question. Lets leave the routing outside (As far as I understand you javascript and plug-in are from routing, right?). How can I say the IE that if it meets a tag "Transistor" to take a picture "transistor.gif". Is it easy? Do I supposed to use XSLT or CSS? (sorry, I don't know much about both and the resources I could find so far about XSLT was not very clear. On other side I use CSS to change font colors on the page and so on, but don't know how it can help to solve my problem.)
Thanks alot,
Boni

Re: Visualize XML

DavidNohejl28-Oct-04 1:33

DavidNohejl

28-Oct-04 1:33

Hi Boni,
Boniolopez wrote:
How can I say the IE that if it meets a tag "Transistor" to take a picture "transistor.gif"
You actually don't say it to IE. Yes, you are supposed to use XSLT. What XSLT do? You have some XML document, and in XSLT you say how to transform it. Result of transformation is usually another XML document, but not allways. You can have XSLT transformation which will output CSV, plain text or whatever. So you will have XLST which will transform XML tag "Transistor" into tag "<img src='transistor.gif' />" The point of use CSS is in absolute positioning, which allow you to arrange images on page.
Example: <img src='transistor.gif' style='position:absolute;left:5px;top:5px'>
will render image with upper-left corner 5 pixels from top of the page and 5 pixels from left border .
btw I've learnt XSLT from (MSDN[^]) I think it's good for u to learn it too (whereever), cuz I think XSLT is very powerful and useful technology... It's not so difficult as it might look Wink | ;)

I hope these information are helpfull... I don't want to write it all, a) it would be so loong post Wink | ;)

b) I want to leave something for u Smile | :)

David

Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)

Xml Search Engine

eliea24-Oct-04 7:08

eliea

24-Oct-04 7:08

I have wrote, using C# a tool that will read Word Documents (with specific formatting) into XML files. The software will be used for a publishing house. The issue is that I would like to give the users a search engine that will enable them to search for a word in all the XML files, and once found high light all the instances...

Are there ready made, customizable xml search engines or is it something that I have to build

Elie

Re: Xml Search Engine

Christian Graus31-Oct-04 9:29

Christian Graus

31-Oct-04 9:29

XPath is, in essence, an XML search engine. It shouldn't be too hard to write an XSLT that searches for a parameterised word and returns a result.

Christian

I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

Re: Xml Search Engine

eliea8-Nov-04 6:46

eliea

8-Nov-04 6:46

I am sorry I did not respond to you sooner. I am just a bigger when it comes to XML. Have you got a small sample.

String convertions

Murlai18-Oct-04 19:49

Murlai

18-Oct-04 19:49

I want convert managed C++ System.String type to C style, char, tchar, _bstr types. How can i conver to un managed c++ types.

Please help..

Murali.

Re: String convertions

Christian Graus19-Oct-04 10:07

Christian Graus

19-Oct-04 10:07

Are you using the string to store XML ?

Christian

I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

Find sub-tree in XML

Stas18-Oct-04 5:33

Stas

18-Oct-04 5:33

Can anybody help me??? please

I have 2 xml files. One of them is a subtree of another one. I need to find node in first document that is parent for second xml. I need it for additional processing using MSXML DOM and that's why I can't use string search. Second xml may has attributes and childs at different level.

My first idea was to create XPath by processing XML DOM structure of second xml, but it turned out, that it is not so easy.

Thanks

import xml file to access using VB

Anonymous18-Oct-04 0:23

Anonymous

18-Oct-04 0:23

hii can anyone give me an example of how to import xml file and then insert the element of that xml file to microsoft access table

hosting vxml

trefeet13-Oct-04 15:00

trefeet

13-Oct-04 15:00

does anyone know of a website where you can upload your vxml files and run your application software? so that users can call the server and add things based on the vxml. i know bevocal.com is a test site, but i havent found any pay sites to run my website.

Space in XSL

theJazzyBrain13-Oct-04 0:06

theJazzyBrain

13-Oct-04 0:06

Dear CPians,

I am trying to have a & n b s p ; in an XSL file. Is there a way to do it

Thank you!

theJazzyBrain

Excellence is not an act, but a habit!

Aristotle

Re: Space in XSL

Stuart Dootson13-Oct-04 1:41

Stuart Dootson

13-Oct-04 1:41

If you want to put the   into an output document (such as HTML) as-is, you could try this:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

or you could put the following at the top of your XSL file and then use   entity in your satylesheet.

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
]>

Stuart Dootson

'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'

Re: Space in XSL

theJazzyBrain13-Oct-04 3:54

theJazzyBrain

13-Oct-04 3:54

Thank you very much...;P

theJazzyBrain

Excellence is not an act, but a habit!

Aristotle

reading XML-File from buffer

martin_u11-Oct-04 4:58

martin_u

11-Oct-04 4:58

If built up a TCP/IP communication between two PC´s via a socket connection. The client is sending XML Data to the Server. I´m writing this Data to a buffer at the moment. The Server is supposed two answer by sending XML Data back.

I need specific Information from the Data sent by the client. I´m trying to find out, how to do that.
I thought, it might be the easiest way to use Serialization. But therefore i need to convert the data in the buffer to a Filestream. And i don´t want to save the Data to the HardDrive first before extracting information.
I´m using C++ & MS VS .Net 2003.

Is this conversation possible?

Do you think that this is the appropriate way to do it, or are there other ways to get to the XML Data i need.
I must say that i´m not a experienced c++ programmer. Please keep that in mind when answering!!

Thanks for the help!!

Re: reading XML-File from buffer

aacool11-Oct-04 5:54

aacool

11-Oct-04 5:54

Try using MemoryStream - the code should be similar to the stuff below

<br />
using System.Xml;<br />
using System.IO;<br />
<br />
byte[] byteArray = ipSocket.getBytes(numBytes);//replace with yr ip get<br />
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream(100);<br />
memStream.Write(byteArray,0,byteArray.Length);<br />
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(stream);<br />

Then do whatever you need to do with the stream contents as XML, Validate, transform, etc.

To put XML data back on the socket,

<br />
MemoryStream memWriteStream = new MemoryStream(100);<br />
XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(memWriteStream,null);<br />
//...<br />
//write relevant xml to writer<br />
byte[] memBuffer = memWriteStream.GetBuffer();//get bytes from stream<br />
int nResult = ipSocket.WriteBytes(memBuffer); //replace with relevant method<br />

Hope this helps
aacool
Aaman Lamba

Sending XML to server via HTTP

sgivoni11-Oct-04 0:38

sgivoni

11-Oct-04 0:38

Hi I can't figure out how to send XML requests to a server and get a XML response. I'm looking at XML-RPC but I'm not sure if it is right. I don't want to send procedure-calls.

If somebody knows a class in C++ that can do it easily - I'm probably just missing the connecting link Unsure | :~

(so to speek)

Any help would be appreciated - thank you

Simon

Re: Sending XML to server via HTTP

Alex Korchemniy16-Oct-04 11:33

Alex Korchemniy

16-Oct-04 11:33

I'm not sure about C++ but in managed code it would be fairly easy to do using classes provided in System.Net namespace. Smile | :)

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Alex Korchemniy

XSL Transform to HTML

Adam Gritt8-Oct-04 4:54

Adam Gritt

8-Oct-04 4:54

Does anyone know where I can find a xslt file to transform xml into html or how to open a new browser window from asp.net to display the xml. I have a string that contains the xml that is generated from an object. I want to display the xml to the user in the browser. The format can change so writing a custom xsl is time consuming. I just want to display the xml as would be done if you open up an xml file in the web browser. However, must of the xsl files that exist on a windows pc for doing this are specifically designed to be run by the browser and don't use the standard schema that is required by XslTransform. I want the data to be displayed in a nicely color and formated XML format. If anyone has any help for me on this it would be greatly appreciated.

Re: XSL Transform to HTML

Christian Graus17-Oct-04 11:03

Christian Graus

17-Oct-04 11:03

Adam Gritt wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find a xslt file to transform xml into html

In every book on xslt, and probably every website. It's a very obvious and typical use. There's no such thing as a generic transform though, it needs to be written to match the schema of your xml, and the format of the desired output.

If you just want to show the XML, you just need to htmlencode it. What language are you using ? C# certainly provides a method to do this, if you're using asp.net.

Christian

I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

HTML with XSLT

hatim_ali7-Oct-04 18:30

hatim_ali

7-Oct-04 18:30

hi folks...

I apologize for reposting but some code was trimmed in the previous post...

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./test[1]/@result != 'failed'">

<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:value-of select="@name">
I need to change the color of tr to red when @result attribute contains "failed". When i executed above snippet i got the following error.

"End tag 'xsl:when' doesn't match the start tag 'tr'"??

Any workarounds ??

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
Hatim Ali.

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