xml browser

[Marc Lijour]

Le July 23, 2004 01:20 pm, Zbigniew Koziol a écrit :
> Background:
>
> CRM (Customer Relationship Management) by MS is a quite complex and ugly
> .NET  program. But interesting for me (everything new is interesting;)
> The version I work on (1.0) does not have good documentation available.
> MS has though documentation for version 1.2 but these both are quite
> different. There are however XML files related to DLLs, and these files
> describe functionality of libraries used by the software.
>
> Question:
>
> Is there a sort of tool around (sure, for Linux better) which could be
> used for creating let say a collection of HTML files from these XML
> ones, to make my reading easier? I am must admit quite new to xml.

Of course.
Use XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language  Transformation, if I'm right).

I suggest you use libxml which is open source and hosted by the Gnome project. 
The library is written in C. And the examples are very helpful! 

The other choice is to use Java libraries (Xalan?).

Transforming XML to HTML is basic. You should find everything online 
(tutorials I mean).
Also O'Reilly's "Java and XSLT" is a good beginner book (but annoying if you 
know more).

Before tackling XSLT you should master the basics of XML and XPATH.

XML (family) is fun and powerful.
Enjoy!

>
> zb.
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