DZone Snippets: xsl code

Converting text to SVG

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:14:11 GMT

First of all the Ruby code reads the text, splits it into an array and then saves it in XML format.



require 'rexml/document'

include REXML



a = "Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer 

review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, 

more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.".split(' ') 



doc = Document.new

doc.add_element('text')

oline = Element.new('line')



char_count = 0

a.each do |word|

  

  oword = Element.new('word')

  oword.text = word.to_s

  oword.add_attribute('length',char_count)

  oline << oword 

  char_count += word.length

  

  if char_count > 50

    doc.root << oline

    oline = Element.new('line')

    char_count = 0

  end

end

doc.root << oline

puts char_count

puts doc

Here's a sample of the XML created





  

    Opensourceis

    adevelopmentmethod

    forsoftwarethat

    harnesses

  

  

    thepower

    ofdistributedpeer

    reviewandtransparency

    ofprocess.

  

  

    The

    promiseofopen

    sourceisbetter

    quality,higherreliability,

  

  

    moreflexibility,lower

    cost,andan

    endtopredatory

    vendor

  

  

    lock-in.

The XML is then transformed to SVG using the following XSL file











            method="xml"

            indent="yes"/>

            

  

                      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" >

      

        

      

    

  

  

  

    12

    20

The final SVG output [twitxr.com] shows 5 lines of text with each word as a separate SVG text element.

Passing an XSL param from one template to another

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:00:27 GMT





xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">





  

  

  

    

  

  

  







  

  

    Title:

source: XSLT Element [w3schools.com]

Using XSLT to generate SVG

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:45:36 GMT

This XSL file is intended to be used as an SVG XSL template file which displays SVG content using Gorg (XSLT back-end processor).











            method="xml"

            indent="yes"/>

            

  

                  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" >

Reference: 'using XSLT to generate SVG' http://snurl.com/24pwo [carto.net]

Transforming an XML file into an XSL file

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:56:00 GMT

This XSL uses the XML for creating another XSL file which renders a web page containing records for a specific project, but I have found the projects I am working on use similar page layouts (ie. menu, body(articles), inputs, and buttons), so it makes sense to re-use a generic template.









  

    :

    

      

        http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform

      

      

        1.0

      

      

      

        page

      

      

      

      

      

        

          page/inputs

      

      

         

          

            

              

                

              

            

          

        

      

            

            

    

  

  

  

    

  

  

  

    

    

      

        

          

            title

            

              @title

            

          

        

        

          

            text

            title

            {@size}

... and here's the XML which is used by the XSL above.





booksbook_entry



  

    

      home 

      development

    

  





  

    www

    

      

    

    

      

    

    

   





authortruetruetrue

subjecttruetruefalse

rating

last_modified

Geni2gedcom

lindenb (Pierre) — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:22:10 GMT

Tansform gedcom-XML output of geni.com to dot file for graphviz













        digraph 'G' {

        

        

        }







        [ label="  &

quot;];







        

        

                ->lect="$famId"/>;

        



        

                ->lect="$famId"/>;

        



        

                ->;

opml xsl transformation schema

jasonbentley (Jason Bentley) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:50:35 GMT

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				 <xsl:value-of select="/opml/head/title"/> 

				

				

			

            

		

	

	

		

			

								

						

						

							

						

						

			 

		

	



	

		

			

				

				

				  

				

				

			

			

			        

				  

				    

				  

				[xml

				

					|www

					

				]

				

				    

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Conditional comment

Booma (Alan Coleman) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:14:46 GMT

From the microsoft website. Better than browser sniffing, the content within the tags will be shown if the condition within [] is met, in the this case IE, but you could also use IE 7 for example



  



  





and the XSL version



  [if IE 7]>

    Content <![endif]