Frank, Andre, Xav: Thanks for your input. More experimentation is in order but it looks promising.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: Frank Leahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Revolution feature set - some questions On Sep 10, 2004, at 5:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Van Esch, Stephen (Bolton)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Revolution feature set - some questions > > The feature page states that Revolution can parse XML files and create > and > manipulate XML content. In my project, we will be dealing with large > XML > documents with extensive formatting via XSLT. Graphics, fonts, font > weights, > line spacing, letter spacing etc. will be part of the output. Can > Revolution > reliably display this kind of formatted XML document? > Stephen, I don't believe there's any XSLT support in Revolution. Whether you can use RunRev will depend on 1) how complicated your XSLT styles sheets are, and 2) how complicated the output text must be. 1) If the XSLT style sheets tend to be simple/straightforward, then you could use the XML parser and mimic the stylesheet by looping through your XML data, outputting styled text as you go -- e.g. <header> outputs as 18pt-bold, <body> outputs as 12pt normal, etc. 2) How complicated is the output text? If it outputs what Revolution can reproduce, then you will be fine. But if it produces something that Revolution can't produce then it will be a problem. For example, if your stylesheet outputs HTML (the most common use of a stylesheet), Now that I think about it, a better option might be to use the altBrowser plugin, and do your transformation into a browser canvas inside a Revolution window. That way you can use the same XSLT stylesheets on the web and in Revolution. This will reduce your development and testing time. -- Frank Leahy _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
