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Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services

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Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:04 AM
Subject: [xsl] feasibility of HTML input


> I'm new to the list and to xsl and xslt.
>
> The goal of this e-mail is to just confirm the feasibility of my endeavor.
It
> would be a bonus if someone pushed me in a helpful direction - or I can
keep
> wandering, which is ok too.
>
> I haven't found much about the feasibility of using an html file as input.
I
> didn't find anything useful through Google searches, though being new to
xsl and
> xslt, I might have not entered the right phrase.  The 2 O'Reilly books
that I
> have also didn't clearly direct me towards a solution - but also didn't
say that
> it couldn't be done.
>
> Digging through the FAQ, here, I *did* finally find a couple references to
using
> HTML as input.  That at least gave me confidence that this is not a
completely
> insane idea.  I didn't get a clear idea of the requirements, but
definitely
> understood that I should TIDY my html before trying to parse it.  :)
>
> So, here I am thinking that it might be possible, but I have spent a bit
of time
> digging, and decided that I might want to check with the experts before
spinning
> wheels further.
>
> =========================================
> Is this feasible,...worthwhile,...better done with another utility?
> =========================================
>
> My team produces nightly JUnit reports and Emma coverage reports for our
code.
> I have added a task to copy off the top-level html pages for these results
for
> historical purposes.  I would like to be able to run a transform across
the
> files in the respective directory (one transform for JUnit and one for
Emma) to
> create summary files (probably comma delimited, to be able to pull into
Excel).
> The summary file could then be used to recognize and learn from trends in
these
> results.
>
> If this is feasible and worthwhile, and not better done with another
utility, I
> will send my current xsl and what I'm running into with it.
>
> Thanks for any advice and/or direction you can provide,
> Dianne

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