[XML-SIG] xsl transforms for displaying XML in a browser
Lloyd Kvam
pythonTutor at venix.com
Fri Oct 1 23:12:49 CEST 2004
I did try the lazy route. The default XML display is just not good
enough. Pretty printed XML is too cluttered and a simple text extract
just runs on. Essentially I need to add some labels, blocking, and
breaks into the text stream. I'll simply write it out.
Thanks.
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 16:52, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> > I have a rather complicated (100 tags) XML file that needs to get
> > displayed sensibly in a browser. I've started writing the XSL to
> > transform the document to html. (CSS is too simple and the XML file
> > needs to be readable for people without requiring special software.)
> >
> > Is there a smart way to do this? I am thinking of writing a python
> > script to simply generate an XSL file with explicit templates for
> > every tag. I would then modify this collection of boiler-plate code
> > to get a reasonable layout.
>
> Well, both Mozilla/Firefox and Internet Explorer already will display
> pretty good pretty-printed versions. Maybe you don't need to do
> anything special.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom P
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Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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