Re: generating attributes and content for an element

Thank you, Michael, Tod and Shlomi,

I don't know a lot about XSL(T) but from the little I know it seems that 
it is used when you need to give a human-friendly shape to an XML 
document (e.g. roughly, show the XML contents as if it was a webpage in 
a navigator).

However, the conversion that I need to do is from XML to another 
XML-based format (that ISO standard I mentioned earlier, called 
Martif/TBX). The TBX file would then be importable for the tools I use. 
You can see what Martif/TBX looks like here (pages 7-12): 
http://www.tiu.ac.jp/org/openforum2006/slides/P5.pdf

So do you still think XSLT would be the right thing for me?

Thanks!
Regards, Manuel

Tod Harter escribió:
> Yeah, that was going to be my suggestion, if you use XML::LibXML then 
> take a look at XML::LibXSLT as well. It has been a LONG while since I 
> installed those on Windows though (and my company is actually sans 
> MS!!!) so off the top of my head all I can tell you is that it is 
> certainly possible to install those modules on Windows. The only part 
> I'm not 100% sure about actually is getting libxml installed, once you 
> do that either PPM with activestate perl or CPAN with regular old perl 
> windows build will do the perl part with no problem.
>
> http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/ appears to have binaries of the 
> DLLs for libxml and libxslt2, check it out ;) Bit more work to get 
> started but you get bog standard XML processing capabilities out of it.
>
> And personlly I second the 'use XSLT' idea. Again it is a bit more 
> learning curve to start, but if you do this kind of thing at all 
> often, XSLT is a lot easier way to go than fudging around in any 
> standard language, plus you can always run the transform on ANY 
> compliant engine.
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Michael Ludwig <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Manuel Souto Pico schrieb:
>     > Michael Ludwig escribió:
>     >> Manuel Souto Pico schrieb:
>     >>>
>     >>> my $data = {
>     >>>        e => ['element value'],
>     >>>        a => 'attribute value'*
>     >>> *};
>     >>
>     >> This is a syntax error, and incomplete. You're using XML::Simple,
>     >> which may become very complicated if what you want to do isn't
>     simple
>     >> enough.
>     >>
>     > I'm sorry, what is the syntax error exactly? If you are referring to
>     > the absent comma, I though it wasn't needed after the last element
>     > before the block-closing bracket.
>
>     It isn't, you're correct. I was referring to the asterisks ** :-)
>
>     > Could you believe that I had already tried this? :) Using the word
>     > 'content' was my first guess, but it didn't work. I probably had the
>     > brackets wrong or something. But it does work now!
>
>     I believe you, no question - I started out myself getting the brackets
>     wrong. Well, that's XML::Simple for you. As Shlomi has pointed
>     out, it's
>     a kludgy way of dealing with XML.
>
>     > By the way, in case you are interested, what I'm doing is
>     converting a
>     > dictionary that I have in XML to Martif format. With XMLin I
>     captured
>     > the original dictionary and now I'm trying to transfer the
>     contents to
>     > the new structure.
>
>     I don't know Martif, but it sounds like you should be using a
>     high-level
>     language instead. Consider using XSLT - it'll pay off.
>
>     Michael Ludwig
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