Tutorial for using xalan?

[Abraham Nelson <ab...@yahoo.com>]

Is there a decent tutorial on using xalan? The samples
and web site are completely unhelpful.


		
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Re: Tutorial for using xalan?

[da...@us.ibm.com]

> I beg to differ. I've been trying to do a simple
> document parse from memory (a string) and traversing
> it's DOM and doing XPath queries. The examples deal
> only with files; I'm guessing I need a differnet
> XSLTInputSource, but the APIs just have me going in
> circles, and the examples don't give a good sense of
> what's needed/being used.

Well, the StreamTransform sample works with strings in memory.  Also, you 
should look at the Xerces-C samples for ideas about how parsing works. 
They have a sample called MemParse, which does what you want to do.

Take a look at the SimpleXPathAPI sample, which uses the XPathEvaluator 
class to evaluate XPath strings to find nodes in an instance of the source 
tree.

Dave

Re: Tutorial for using xalan?

[Abraham Nelson <ab...@yahoo.com>]

--- Per Jessen <pe...@computer.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT), Abraham
> Nelson wrote:
> 
> Define "using Xalan".  Once you've built Xalan,
> using it is mostly
> about writing XSLT stylesheets, for which there is
> plenty of info elsewhere.

Fine let me rephrase: getting started with a simple
program of what's needed (headers, etc) to do a simple
task without having to refer to the source of Xalan to
get any kind of clue of how to proceed.

> If you're talking about using Xalan within your own
> app, the API reference is
> a good help. 

I beg to differ. I've been trying to do a simple
document parse from memory (a string) and traversing
it's DOM and doing XPath queries. The examples deal
only with files; I'm guessing I need a differnet
XSLTInputSource, but the APIs just have me going in
circles, and the examples don't give a good sense of
what's needed/being used.

Pathan and Sablotron - now THERE are two examples of
projects with good, descriptive APIs and helpful,
descriptive examples!





	
		
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Re: Tutorial for using xalan?

[Per Jessen <pe...@computer.org>]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT), Abraham Nelson wrote:

>Is there a decent tutorial on using xalan? The samples
>and web site are completely unhelpful.

Define "using Xalan".  Once you've built Xalan, using it is mostly
about writing XSLT stylesheets, for which there is plenty of info elsewhere.
If you're talking about using Xalan within your own app, the API reference is
a good help. 


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