Re: W3C Schema to HTML form.Generic solution available?

Haven't read that book, but I generally find Wrox books to be
beginnerish.  The w3schools tutorial is IMHO enough to get you started,
and from there a good reference is all you need.  I'd highly recommend
the O'Reilly XSLT books, they've always seemed more practical to me.

Either way, it's been a long time since I've had to consult a book to
write XSLT, considering I've been using it almost since it was a draft.

Schema's on the list of need to learns, as you say... DTD is going away.
  But it's hardly a priority as there are many things higher on my list
to learn.

-- Kwon J. Ekstrom

Mark Galbreath wrote:

> Just grab the latest edition of Michael Kay's book - it's the bible of XSLT.
> I have the 2d edition (Wrox 2001), which is probably the latest.
>
> As for learning XML schema, you better - DTDs are history.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: XML technologies in the Java Platform
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Kwon J. Ekstrom
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: W3C Schema to HTML form.Generic solution available?
>
>
> IMHO, XSLT is the best tool, I don't personally know XML Schema yet
> (having not had a driving reason to learn it, although it's on the list).
>
> First off, since you mention some difficulty understanding how XSLT
> works.  From an OO perspective, think of the XML as a tree based data
> source, and your XSLT as your application.
>
> Each template is essentially a function, which can be called by applying
> on a matching node, or by being called directly by name.
>
> You can assume that each template is also an object with the properties
> of the element it is being applied to.
>
> The xsl:param/with-param elements allow passing variables between
> functions.  Note that these can be viewed as "optional" arguments, with
> a default specified by the child nodes, or the xpath contained in a
> select attribute.
>
> XPath essentially acts as a search algorithm for any matching nodes.
> It's really where I'd suggest concentrating XSL research.  Most of the
> power of XSL comes from XPath.
>
> This is a very rough explaination, and not entirely accurate, but should
> serve to help you find some common ground.
>
> Since you don't have previous XSLT experience, I suggest you try to
> write templates based on the direct output.
>
> Take a look at the example schema found at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/
> xsd_ref_01mb.asp
>
> At the end of this email, I've pasted in the xml on that page, along
> with a template that works with it.
>
> However, you can use either a passed in parameter or the document xpath
> function to load your schema as a second document.  Assuming you wish to
> try it, you can use a technique that I call cross-templating to write a
> generic schema template.
>
> Although I doubt such an effort would be worth the results, as it would
> handle building the forms and validation, but most likely wouldn't do so
> in a user friendly manor (UI is the major concern here).
>
> The purpose here I assume is to increase productivity.  If you'd like
> more information, I'd be happy to post some examples.
>
> -- Kwon J. Ekstrom
>
> amol wrote:
>
>
>>Thanks Roy.
>>I did go through this series of articles but its too specific to the
>>example xml document in the article.
>>I guess the solution would be to write a XSL which transform the schema
>>into xhtml form.
>>But I am sure someone must have already done this since it looks like a
>>common problem.
>>yups..am basically OO programmer. Just today I went through the
>>XSL tutorial on w3school (http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/) Pretty
>>informative and concise.
>>Still grappling for a solution.....
>>
>>
>>    ----- Original Message -----
>>    *From:* Roy Jacob <mailto:[email protected]>
>>    *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>    *Sent:* Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:58 PM
>>    *Subject:* Re: W3C Schema to HTML form.Generic solution available?
>>
>>    Hi.
>>    Have a look at this and the following articles.
>>    http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/30/editing.html
>>
>>    It's not the answer you are looking for but it may help you develop
>>    your own solution. I'm in a similar boat to you and have been using
>>    these articles for referance. If your a classical OO programmer like
>>    me the XSL learning curve is V steep!
>>
>>    Roy.
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:template match="purchaseOrder">
>   <table>
>   <tr><td colspan="2">Order Date: <xsl:value-of select="@orderDate"
> /></td></tr>
>   <tr>
>    <td>
>     <xsl:call-template name="USAddress">
>      <xsl:with-param name="addr" select="shipTo" />
>     </xsl:call-template>
>    </td>
>    <td>
>     <xsl:call-template name="USAddress">
>      <xsl:with-param name="addr" select="billTo" />
>     </xsl:call-template>
>    </td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr><td colspan="2"><xsl:value-of select="comment" /></td></tr>
>   <tr><td colspan="2">
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="items" />
>   </td></tr>
>   </table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="items">
>   <table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="1">
>   <tr>
>    <th>Part #</th>
>    <th>Product</th>
>    <th>Quantity</th>
>    <th>Price</th>
>    <th>Ship Date</th>
>    <th>Comment</th>
>   </tr>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="item">
>    <xsl:sort select="USPrice" order="descending" />
>   </xsl:apply-templates>
>   <tr>
>    <td></td>
>    <td></td>
>    <td><xsl:value-of select="sum(item/quantity)" /></td>
>    <td><xsl:value-of
> select="format-number(sum(item/USPrice),'$#,##0.00')" /></td>
>    <td></td>
>    <td></td>
>   </tr>
>   </table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="item">
>   <tr>
>    <td><xsl:value-of select="@partNum" /></td>
>    <td><xsl:value-of select="productName" /></td>
>    <td><xsl:value-of select="quantity" /></td>
>    <td align="right">
>      <xsl:value-of select="format-number(USPrice,'$#,##0.00')" />
>    </td>
>    <td>
>     <xsl:value-of select="shipDate" />
>     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
>    </td>
>    <td>
>     <xsl:value-of select="comment" />
>     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
>    </td>
>   </tr>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template name="USAddress">
>   <xsl:param name="addr" />
>   <xsl:value-of select="$addr/name" /><br />
>   <xsl:value-of select="$addr/street" /><br />
>   <xsl:value-of select="$addr/city" />,
>   <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$addr/state" />
>   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
>   <xsl:value-of select="$addr/zip" />
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test1.xslt" ?>
>
> <purchaseOrder orderDate="1999-10-20">
>      <shipTo country="US">
>          <name>Alice Smith</name>
>          <street>123 Maple Street</street>
>          <city>Mill Valley</city>
>          <state>CA</state>
>          <zip>90952</zip>
>      </shipTo>
>      <billTo country="US">
>          <name>Robert Smith</name>
>          <street>8 Oak Avenue</street>
>          <city>Old Town</city>
>          <state>PA</state>
>          <zip>95819</zip>
>      </billTo>
>      <comment>Hurry, my lawn is going wild!</comment>
>      <items>
>          <item partNum="872-AA">
>              <productName>Lawnmower</productName>
>              <quantity>1</quantity>
>              <USPrice>148.95</USPrice>
>              <comment>Confirm this is electric</comment>
>          </item>
>          <item partNum="926-AA">
>              <productName>Baby Monitor</productName>
>              <quantity>1</quantity>
>              <USPrice>39.98</USPrice>
>              <shipDate>1999-05-21</shipDate>
>          </item>
>      </items>
> </purchaseOrder>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> xml-interest: A list for discussing XML technologies in the Java Platform.
> To post, mailto:[email protected]
> Archives at: http://archives.java.sun.com/xml-interest.html
> To unsubscribe, mailto:[email protected] the following message;
> signoff xml-interest.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> xml-interest: A list for discussing XML technologies in the Java Platform.
> To post, mailto:[email protected]
> Archives at: http://archives.java.sun.com/xml-interest.html
> To unsubscribe, mailto:[email protected] the following message;
> signoff xml-interest.
>

-----------------------------------------------------
xml-interest: A list for discussing XML technologies in the Java Platform.
To post, mailto:[email protected]
Archives at: http://archives.java.sun.com/xml-interest.html
To unsubscribe, mailto:[email protected] the following message;
signoff xml-interest.