Re: [tasklist] tasklist and netbeans xml file

Tor Norbye wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:26, vbrabant wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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 ?
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>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.
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>So - as you suggesting we provide an "Export to XML" function
>which does something similar to today's Export to HTML, 
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Why not. Seems good for me.

>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?
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>Would you like to work on this? 
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Why not. I am ready to try to do it. Certainly if you say that the code 
is fairly isolated.
I will look at the HTMLSupport and xCalendar.java and try to do a 
XMLSupport based upon a mix
of those two files.

>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.
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>-- Tor
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Thanks for your pointing

Vincent

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