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Subject: RE: [xsl] XML to plain text : which processor best to use ? From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:14:33 +0100 |
> I need to transform XML documents into plain text documents > using XLST, as part of a Java project. Usually I use Xalan > for XML --> XML transformations in java evironment, but this > time not only I will transform XML into text but also I need > to be able to manage perfectly blank spaces and carriage > returns. So I was wondering which processor to choose (Xalan, > XT, others...) for doing this, with eventually some special > extensions (OutputHandler ?) for managing correctly carriage > returns and blank spaces. It seems that most processors does > not handle carriage returns very well without extensions... You can produce any standard XML character in the output without recourse to extensions. You will only need extensions to produce non-XML characters, e.g. C0 control characters. All the Java processors provide rather similar mechanisms for achieving this. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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