Re: entity-encoded XML

[Erin Harris]

Hi,

You could build a DOM from the string and pass back the root node.  The 
valid return types for extension functions are listed here:  
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensions.html#ext-functions.

Thanks.

Erin Harris





rbaxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
28/02/2007 11:22 AM

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Re: entity-encoded XML







I have made a little progress actually.  I now have an Xalan extension 
that
takes in the encoded data as a String and then on that String I replace 
all
the encoded characters with the corresponding <, >, ".  The problem now is
that I need to return the data as something the stylesheet can use to 
select
values from.  Any ideas?

Erin Harris wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You might want to post this to the xerces mailing list: 
> j-users@xerces.apache.org, as they might have some other ideas.
> 
> One suggestion is to wrapper the xml file with a start and end tag and 
> then parse it, providing your own ContentHandler which has the 
following:
> 
> StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
> 
> public void characters(char[] arg0, int arg1, int arg2) throws 
> SAXException {
>         buffer.append(arg0, arg1, arg2);
> }
> 
> When I ran this against the following input:
> 
> <root>
> &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
> &lt;?xml-stylesheet href=&quot;SalesToHTML.xsl&quot;
> type=&quot;text/xsl&quot; ?&gt;
> &lt;!-- SalesReport.xml --&gt;
> &lt;SalesReport&gt;
>                  &lt;Company&gt;XMML.com&lt;/Company&gt;
>                  &lt;Period&gt;2001-2002&lt;/Period&gt;
>                  &lt;Sales Region=&quot;EU&quot;&gt;50,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
>                  &lt;Sales 
Region=&quot;NA&quot;&gt;150,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
>                  &lt;Sales Region=&quot;AU&quot;&gt;10,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
> &lt;/SalesReport&gt;
> </root>
> 
> My string buffer contained:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="SalesToHTML.xsl"
> type="text/xsl" ?>
> <!-- SalesReport.xml -->
> <SalesReport>
>                  <Company>XMML.com</Company>
>                  <Period>2001-2002</Period>
>                  <Sales Region="EU">50,000</Sales>
>                  <Sales Region="NA">150,000</Sales>
>                  <Sales Region="AU">10,000</Sales>
> </SalesReport>
> 
> The value of the string buffer can then itself be parsed.
> 
> Erin Harris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> rbaxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> 27/02/2007 11:44 AM
> 
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> Subject
> entity-encoded XML
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, there may be a simple answer to this but I have not found anything.
> 
> I have an XML file that is entity-encoded (see below) which I want to
> transform into an HTML file using Xalan.  What would be the best way to 
> make
> Xalan read the XML file?
> 
> Sample XML file:
> 
> &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
> &lt;?xml-stylesheet href=&quot;SalesToHTML.xsl&quot;
> type=&quot;text/xsl&quot; ?&gt;
> &lt;!-- SalesReport.xml --&gt;
> &lt;SalesReport&gt;
>                  &lt;Company&gt;XMML.com&lt;/Company&gt;
>                  &lt;Period&gt;2001-2002&lt;/Period&gt;
>                  &lt;Sales Region=&quot;EU&quot;&gt;50,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
>                  &lt;Sales 
Region=&quot;NA&quot;&gt;150,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
>                  &lt;Sales Region=&quot;AU&quot;&gt;10,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
> &lt;/SalesReport&gt;
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