Re: [tasklist] tasklist and netbeans xml file

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:26, vbrabant wrote:
> As you know, each module responsible must maintain a xml file containing 
> data about features and tasks.
> I would like to know if it's possible to do import.of that xml file into 
> the tasklist module, do some modification and them export it to html 
> file simillary to one used for the new features.
> 
> another question, if the first one is negative, why not permit, when I 
> do a export to html, to have the possibility to change the xsl file used 
> for the export.
> Do you think it's easily feasable ?

Not easily - there's no XSL used to generate HTML export right now;
the HTML is "hardcoded"; it first spits out a standard header,
then it iterates over the tasklist, and for each node, calls a
"export Node to HTML" method which again iterates over the
property fields and writes a cell for each one.

So - as you suggesting we provide an "Export to XML" function
which does something similar to today's Export to HTML, and
then export to html could be implemented by taking that XML
and translating it to HTML using one of a set of available
XSL's?

Would you like to work on this? I think the code should be
fairly isolated. Right now there's an HTMLSupport file; create
a similar XMLSupport file and register it as an export filter
the way the HTMLSupport (and iCalendar support) etc. are
registered. Once you have XML export working (and we used to
have one; it's still in CVS' attic - it's called xCalendar.java,
and it was up to date until recently) then the style sheet
bit shouldn't be too hard.

-- Tor