Subject: Call-Template confusion From: Emitchell154@xxxxxx Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:07:28 EDT |
Hello all I'm trying to transform an input XML doc to an internal format my company uses, and I have a couple of questions. Thanks in advance for any help-I want this to turn out well; I'm told my company had a disastrous introduction to XML, and they are now suspicious of all things XML. First off The input XML docs arrive with a document type declaration, so to transform them (we don't care about their validity-that will have been done before they reach us by the client), must the processor (xt) have access to the dtd? (It is a 97 page monster, and I'm afraid that validating against it (or whatever xt might need it for) will slow transformations, and give the anti-XML element in the company ammunition) . If it must, is there a way to write a micro-dtd, just a few lines, which more-or-less says "Everything is permitted" and give it the same name as the monster? Finally The result must have selected nodes converted to text, in a specific position on its proper line (e.g., the text in node <xx> must be output to line 2, spaces 14-50), but the text in the node may or may not occupy all the alloted space (although if it goes over, that's Somebody Elses Problem). I thought maybe <xsl:text> instructions containing the proper number of spaces as well as an <xsl:value-of />, but Mike Kay's book put a damper on that (my shortcomings are all genetic; the book rocks :>) ) . Could a call-template be written that took two parameters (a string, and a number) return the string with empty spaces appended to the end so that it occupied the number of spaces specified by the number parameter? How would such a template be written in XSLT, or is there a better way altogether? BRIEF EXAMPLE <a>123456789 </a> <!--<a> must occupy spaces 5 through 15, inclusive, on line x--> 1234567 <!--b must occupy spaces 17 through 50, inclusive, also on line x--> needs to be (hyphens represent blank spaces, numbering begins at 0): -----123456789---1234567-------------------------- Thanks again Edmund Mitchell edmund_mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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