Matt,
This has actually changed a little bit lately, when we introduced the standard format for binary and text documents:
http://www.orbeon.com/ois/doc/reference-formats
The parsing of lines by the URL generator was never documented, so we took the liberty to remove it from that processor. The rationale was that it seemed a litte arbitrary to handle text files this way: after all, somebody may want the document unparsed, somebody may want to parse it as a CSV file, etc., which would mean that many options would be needed. So we chose to make the URL generator generates plain "standard" binary and text formats. This is the bad news ;-)
BUT if you look at the Employees example, you will see how to connect the URL generator to a custom processor based on the Java processor (i.e. compiled on the fly), ParseLines.java. The processor has about 20 lines of useful code, so it is really simple, and it generates a document of the format Matt is showing here. This is the good news.
So Matt, if you have to upgrade to Presentation Server 2.6 or later, it will be trivial to achieve the same result you have now out of the box, but you will have to make a little change.
-Erik
Matt Allen wrote:
Hi Adam;
We use delimited files to XML all the time in our OIS (was OXF) app.
A file that looks like this:
a,b,c,d
Will look like
<lines> <line>a,b,c,d</..> </..>
When read into XPL land. Doing simple XSL on that is dead easy. When it comes time to write code, drop me a line and I'd be happy to help out.
-Matt
Matt Allen
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River Dynamics
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Right, "as soon as" bieng an important clause! We've looked pretty hard and not found much;
We have been disappointed by what we have found so far as well.
It appears to support both LDAP and JDBC? (From looking at the examples).
Yes, it does :-)
Excellent.
Just two more questions before I start poking it for real.
1.) Is the a "file input" processor/event. Has anyone worked on an ability to read delimited files, turning them into XML documents? This was one of the very nice features of BIE (unfortunately the rest of that package kind of stinks).
2.) Do people have good like with the POI/Excel-file-generator? We've also had notoriously bad results with these things.
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