Mike: Thanks for phrasing the real issue so succinctly. Now, can we please bury this poor creature and move on? -Bob
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Rawlins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:47 PM To: EDI-L Mailing List Subject: Re: [EDI-L] The Ubiquity of XML - again. William, I think you're beating a dead horse. Very few people on this list need to be convinced of the value of XML. That isn't the issue. The issue is determining when XML's benefits to the major hubs justify the cost in moving from installed EDI systems which work very well, for the most part. I'm sure it will happen eventually. Cheers, Mike At 03:56 PM 2/2/2005 -0500, William J. Kammerer wrote: >See below. People actually do use XML for "incoming customer Purchase >Orders." This was seen on the xsl-list. I have no idea whether the >XML PO was based on an open standard like UBL, but that's not the >important point I wish to make. Everyone reading the note on xsl-list >is probably familiar with XML syntax and XSLT stylesheets - whether >they are mathematicians, teachers, agronomists, chemists, petroleum >engineers, programmers, web designers, or whatever. There's safety in >numbers. Wouldn't that be a hoot if a particle physicist helped this >guy out? That wouldn't be such a stretch to imagine. But how many >particle physicists know Gentran? > >William J. Kammerer >Novannet >Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA >+1 (614) 487-0320 > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Varley, Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Xsl-List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, 02 February, 2005 12:11 PM >Subject: [xsl] Formatting Text Output > > >Hi > >I have a requirement that involves incoming customer Purchase Orders in >xml format and I need to extract the relevant data and output that >information in a text file. The item code, description and order >quantity need to appear in columns aligned with the colomn headings. >I've got it all working and I'm seperating the columns with ><xsl:text>	....	</xsl:text> to obtain the required spacing. > >The problem that I've got is that the product description is variable >length and therefore the number of 	 characters that need inserting >to line up the following colomns depends upon the length of the >description - and I can't find any sort of length() function. Any >suggestions how I go about this? > >Regards >Roger >--~------------------------------------------------------------------ >XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list >To unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/ >or e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >--~-- > > > > >. >Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: ><SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access >the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting www.rawlinsecconsulting.com Using XML with Legacy Business Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003) www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321154940 . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
