RE: What I need from XML
by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
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At 16:40 19/03/00 -0500, Sheila S Ruth wrote:
>You might want to look into XSLT for part of this. XSLT (XML
>Transformations) allows you to write definitions to transform an XML file
>into another XML file. It can be used to transform an XML file into an HTML
>file, with the caveat that the transformed HTML file must conform to the
>well-formedness rules of XML. So, for example, you will need closing tags
>for all opening tags. Even images and other "empty" tags need to be closed.
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>With XSLT you can have different transformation definitions to transform
>your base file into different HTML formats.
XSLT is still leading edge technology at this stage. I'm more interested
in transforming current pages to XHTML - that maintains compatibility with
older browsers and the current market. Because XHTML is also XML, it opens
the door to XSL transformations into other forms.
I foresee the transformation from HTML/XHTML into WML as a more important
transformation than simple flavour changes within HTML.
Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au
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