As part of our coding, we need to fetch values from a string which is capsulated in CDATA function.
Unfortunately Datapower doesnot recognise CDATA as a valid XSL function.
Is there anyway in XSL Programming, i can deserialise the string and take the needed values.
Used DP:PARSE function in Datapower and thus able to deserialise it. Thanks.
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I want a program that parses a XML-file, build a structure with the tags I need and finally print a HTML-report using HTML-templates with keywords that get replaced by the data from the XML files.
Since I'm not(yet) really into the OO programming I hoped to get some tips and advices how to structure a program like this.
I thought that two classes should be enough. A parser class and a data class.
the first one to go through the XML-file and report every tag I want to store to a data object which stores all the tags in a hierarchical order. After that I want to call a print function which prints everything as HTML-report.
I'm not sure how to report the tags to the data object
Could I store the tags in one object which stores a tree of structs or would it be better to store each tag in a separate object?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You don't mention Qt in your question, but as you added it as a tag: there is QtXML, which will give a way to parse and generate XML documents, and will also work for HTML output. XML is typically handled either via DOM or SAX. With DOM, the documents are parsed into a tree structure, and you will work on the tree as your central data element. With SAX, you use callback functions that are called for the different XML elements while parsing the XML input.
There is a lot about DOM and SAX on the internet, Wikipedia is a good starting point. There is also a lot of documentation on QtXML on-line.
Using DOM and/or SAX will give a nice architecture for solving the problem.
I solved my problem and want to share my architecture.
I made a Class Parser to parse the Elements and report the tags to an HTMLHandler class which has Subclasses like Header, Content and Sub-content. which store the Data and all have write()- methodes to print themselves out.
works fine for me and is quit simple :)
I am trying to truncate some text that has been formatted via HTML, but I need to keep the html in tact. I am doing so in SharePoint 2007 - so I am using XSLT 1.0.
I found this bit of XSLT here: http://symphony-cms.com/download/xslt-utilities/view/20816/
I was able to implement it, but it is telling me that the variable or parameter "Limit" has been defined twice.
However, the author has named many variables and parameters "Limit" and I am not sure which one I need to change.
I am fairly new to XSLT, and any help is greatly appreciated.
This is because at the top the XSLT the author has defined limit as a parameter
<xsl:param name="limit"/>
But a few lines down, then defines it as a variable
<xsl:variable name="limit">
Perhaps he had a 'buggy' xslt processor which allowed variables to be re-defined, but it should not actually be valid.
I did try renaming the variable to newlimit but it is hard to know whn he subsequently refers to limit whether it is the paramater or variable it is referring too (I couldn't actually get it to output useful HTML).
You are probably better off looking for something else to meet your needs. There may even be similar questions here on StackOverflow if you search about. For example, perhaps this meets your needs
XSLT - Using substring with copy-of to preserve inner HTML tags
I am sure there may be others if you look. If not, feel free to ask a new question, giving your input HTML, and your expected output, so that it is clear what your requirements are.
I'm trying to parse XML data stored in a variable, not a file. The reason for this is that program x replies to program y in XML, so it would seem to be best to directly parse the XML from the variable.
So far I have tried to do this in TinyXML, but I don't see an interface to load from a variable.
It's basically the opposite of TinyXML: Save document to char * or string, instead of saving to char, I want to load from char(or string)
For example instead of the following:
TiXmlDocument doc( "demo.xml" );
doc.LoadFile();
something like
doc.LoadVar(char*)
I also checked out RapidXML, but I also can't seem to find documentation to load from a variable.
Thanks
You can use TiXmlDocument::Parse. See tinyxml documentation for more details.
If you already have the document in a string why not simply call the TiXmlDocument::Parse method and be done?
I am a latecomer to XML - have to parse an XML file. Our company is using xerces already so I managed to cobble together a sample app (SAX) that displays all the data in a file. However, after parsing is complete I was expecting to be able to call the parser or some other entity that had an internal representation of the file and iterate through the fields/data.
Basically I want to be able to hand it some key or other string(s) and get back strings or collections of key/value pairs. I do not see that. It seems pretty obvious to me that that is a good thing to do. Am I missing something?
Is the DOM parsing what I want, or does that fall short too?
Xerces provides both SAX and DOM processing. SAX parsing doesn't construct a model, so once parsing is finished there is nothing to examine or iterate through. DOM processing produces a tree-structured model which gives you what you want.
Check out the beginner's sample in this page
YoLinux Tutorial on Parsing XML
If you use the XercesDOMParser, there is still no way to request a specific key value pair after the document is parsed. I ran into the same problem recently, and while iterating through the DOM tree I stored all the key value pairs in an STL map. Then you can request key value pairs from the map later in the program.
I'm writing a template in xslt with xpath 1.0 and need to access the anchor tag from the url of the current page. For example, the url:
http://localhost/destinations/london.aspx#accommodation
I need to be able to get #accommodation and assign it to a variable. I realise I'm somewhat limited by using xpath 1.0 - has anyone got any experience doing this?
Thanks, Adam
Why is this an xpath problem at all? A URL is not an XML document, ergo xpath does not apply.
XSLT is completely unaware of any state like page location. Guessing a bit at what you're trying to do, you're probably best off getting #accomodation from string manipulation or framework in the layer which calls the XSLT, passing the value in as a param.
OTOH maybe this is nonsensical and your question just needs clarification.
As #Annakata said, this is not an XPath problem. It doesn't seem to be an XSLT problem either, though I may be mistaken. If it is related to XSLT string parsing, then what you need is something like this question talks about.
What you probably need instead is Javascript to get the current URL (document.location) and then perform Javascript string parsing on it.
There is no way in standard XSLT to access to URL of a document : http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/nono.html#d1974e804
Some vendors might provide this information via custom properties, but then you would be dependant on the XSLT processor.
If you have managed to get the URL into the XSLT in some fashion, then I suggest you will have to resort to simple string manipulation to get the anchor.