Re: generating attributes and content for an element

Manuel Souto Pico schrieb:
> 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).

It may, of course, be used in this case. In fact, it should be preferred
to other technologies by a lot.

> However, the conversion that I need to do is from XML to another
> XML-based format

Exactly the use case for XSLT.

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

Absolutely. If you want to do serious XML work, forget about
XML::Simple. Use the real tools. Use XSLT.

XSLT comes in two versions: 1.0 and, significantly enhanced, 2.0.
The latter is much more powerful.

For Perl, you'll want to use XML::LibXSLT, which is built on top of
Daniel Veillards LibXSLT. But then, you probably won't need Perl.
(I know I shouldn't say that here.)

On Windows, you already have MSXML.

You can also use one of the three free XSLT 2.0 processors currently
available:

* Saxon (Java, .NET)
* Altova (Windows only)
* Gestalt

Then, join XSL-List, rightly famed for its helpfulness, promptness,
and competence:

http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/

Michael Ludwig
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