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Subject: Re: [xsl] XML Data Islands, XML Menu Trees and other stuff
From: António Mota <xptm@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:52:07 +0000

Theres a sample in the package that seems a good starting point for what i
need
(or i think i need, at the moment...)

Thanks a lot, i'll go dig it a little.

Regards.

Quoting Emmanouil Batsis <Emmanouil.Batsis@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

>
> Sarissa[1] may be what you are looking for and is available under
> GPL/LGPL. The CVS version[2] has some new stuff that you might be
> interested in that should make it easier to
>
> * apply the same stylesheet multiple times on XML documents using an
> XSLTProcessor (since the previous version)
> * inject the transformation result in the document using
>
> Sarissa.updateContentFromURI(sourceURL, targetElement, xsltProcessor)
>
> Feedback, especially on the CVS version very welcome.
>
> [1] http://sarissa.sf.net/
> [2] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sarissa/sarissa/
>
> hth,
>
> Manos
>
> xptm@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >I'm still playing around, but with limited succcess. I tryed to work with
> both
> ><div> and <iframe> but they work diferently in IE / FF. I first used the
div
> >innerText but it seems it won't work with FF. Now, with the iframes it
kinda
> >work, but it still needs a lot of work.
> >
> >If you want to see a *very early* example look at
> >http://gti.clientes.gtinformatica.pt/Site/java/menus.xml with the xsl in
> >http://gti.clientes.gtinformatica.pt/Site/java/drawmenus.xsl but it's so
> ugly
> >i'm kind of embaressed...
> >
> >*OFF TOPIC* on other lists it was brought to my attention that it's not
> polyte
> >to sign posts with just a alias like "xptm", so just wanted to say that my
> name
> >is Antsnio Mota, and i live near Lisbon, Portugal. I work with a lot of
> things
> >including Java and XSL, wich i like very much.
> >
> >One of the projects where i got much help from this list is in
> >http://gti.clientes.gtinformatica.pt/Site/java/GTJDemo.html , it's a
> pre-demo
> >version, i hope i can put there a description of the XSLT work envolved.
> >
> >Best regards.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Quoting xptm@xxxxxxx:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Wow, that looks great :)
> >>
> >>In the meantime i've been playing with the XmlHttpRequest and it really
> works
> >>on
> >>IE and FF, at least. So it seems it's not dificult to get the XML files
> >>without
> >>a all trip to the server.
> >>
> >>Now for XSLTing the XML i think i'll wait for your example...
> >>
> >>Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >>Citando "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>xptm@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi David, and all.
> >>>>
> >>>>OT i just went to XSLT:Blog and where it should appear (i added the
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>spaces)
> >>
> >>
> >>>>I ' m
> >>>>appears
> >>>>I b $ (TM) m
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Both IE and Firefox(and Im assuming other Mozilla based browsers) that
> >>>are set to auto detect encoding decide that utf-8 is actually
> >>>iso-8859-1.  Given that they both do it my assumption is that there is
> >>>some obscure line in the HTML causing this to happen as I find it
> >>>strange that both algorithms would read the byte stream in the same way
> >>>and determine iso-8859-1 instead of the proper utf-8.  The charset is
> >>>clearly defined as utf-8
> >>>
> >>><meta snip... content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
> >>>
> >>>So I really dont know whats up...  I cant be the only MT install that
has
> >>>this problem so as soon as I have a chance I will look further into it.
> >>>
> >>>In the mean time manually change your browser to recognize the page as
> >>>
> >>>
> >>UTF-8
> >>
> >>
> >>>and youll be fine, all be it temporary.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Now on-topic, i've been searching for info in places like w3schools,
and
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>it
> >>
> >>
> >>>>gives me the impression that XML data islands and related techniques
are
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>very
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>tyied to IE browser, like HTML elements binding, XML HTTP requests,
> etc...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Also
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>i saw that XML data islands has nothing to do with W3C...
> >>>>
> >>>>Is this correct?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>No... It does take some trickery but its possible and really quite easy
> >>>once you understand the process that needs to take place.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>My boss suddenly give a high priority to this going-to-be project, so
let
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>me
> >>
> >>
> >>>>elaborate a little more for you to see if this falls in your
techniques.
> >>>>
> >>>>Do you think you techniques can be adaptable to this, or should i start
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>looking
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>elsewere?
> >>>>
> >>>>Regards.
> >>>>
> >>>>Basically, my intention is to have a menu tree that, when cliked on a
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>node,
> >>
> >>
> >>>>would do a trip to the server to get some XML that could be a sub-menu
> >>>>definition to display dinamically, or a XML ResultSet from a db to
> display
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>via
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>XSL/CSS/CSS2, or even a HTML page to display on a frame (altougt i
don't
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>like
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>frames). I want to do this dinamically, specially without refreshing
the
> >>>>browser, as this has a tendency to become very heavy.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>In fact this a perfect example of how this could be used...  In fact
> >>>that would be a simple demo to quickly create... instead of stressing
> >>>over this larger piece let me feed it to you in bit size morsels as it
> >>>will probably be easier to understand initially and from there is just
> >>>adding one more source of data at a time and using that data to
> >>>coordinate proper context between the elements between rendered...
> >>>
> >>>Give me a bit to rethink how best to showcase this and I will return
> >>>with a sample...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Cheers!
> >>>
> >>><M:D/>
>
>





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