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From XML to HTML (using stylesheets)

 [1/2] from: tooki::widebay::net::au at: 12-Nov-2000 20:34


Hi, I'm new to the list, though I have been following REBOL from it's first appearance on the Web. At the moment I'm looking into new technologies for the company I'm working for. One option they're thinking of is to start using XML to describe all kinds of information they want to offer to their customers. They are looking at XML as a universal descriptive language, which will then be plugged into many different 'delivery formats', such as Internet browsers, email, fax, pdf-files etc. I'm very enthusiastic about REBOL and REBOL/View and would like to put together a demo to show my company its many benefits. I'm not too sure about REBOL's ability to handle and translate XML though. I've played with the 'parse-xml' command, and see how the whole XML content is placed into a tree-structure. That may be nice, but also hard to navigate (i'd rather have had a tree of nested objects, for instance, which would be far easier to navigate and manipulate). Is there anyone out there who has already done some XML-to-HTML conversions? Ideally with the use of style-sheets (such as XSL) to determine the look-and-feel for various delivery platforms? I think I would be able to come up with something myself, eventually, but REBOL is quite new to me, and I'd rather start with some properly documented examples and take it from there. Regards, Bard Papegaaij

 [2/2] from: al:bri:xtra at: 13-Nov-2000 16:54


Bard Papegaaij wrote:
> ...(I'd rather have had a tree of nested objects, for instance, which
would be far easier to navigate and manipulate). Is there anyone out there who has already done some XML-to-HTML conversions? Ideally with the use of style-sheets (such as XSL) to determine the look-and-feel for various delivery platforms? Not yet, though I hope to in the near future. You might be interested in this: On the Pythonic" treatment of XML documents as objects (II)": http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/xml-matters2/index.html?dwzo ne=xml I'm interested in Smart ASCII or eText (Project Gutenberg texts), DocBook and XML, Rebol Server Pages and HTML dialect, and using Rebol to hook them all together, to generate active and passive web sites and to write/store/retrieve documents and texts. Andrew Martin Near a bigger blue than "Big Blue"... ICQ: 26227169 http://members.nbci.com/AndrewMartin/