Re: Re: XML documentation formatting and transformations

Yea, it means learning another language. I could do it using Perl and the DOM now and it's fairly obvious just how to do it.

If XSLT can't do what I want, I wouldn't even try, but go right to the Perl program.

What does CSS do with XML? I know how to use Cascading Style Sheets level 1 for my HTML, but I've never heard of it transforming XML into HTML or otherwise enableing a browser like IE to present it nicely. Can you elaborate on that?

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Re: Re: Re: XML documentation formatting and transformations by alien_life_form (Pilgrim) on Nov 01, 2001 at 23:58 UTC
Greetings. I do this kind of stuff occasionally, so I am of little use without a reference (which I do not have by now) however: say `<foo>this is your tag</foo>` [download] then you can style it in a CSS2 stylesheet like this: `foo { display:block; color:red; }` [download] Which tells the formatter you have got a block level element, and to color it in red... See for instance: http://www.zvon.org/xxl/CSS2Tutorial/General/htmlIntro.html Cheers, alf -- You can't have everything: where would you put it?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Re: XML documentation formatting and transformations by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Nov 02, 2001 at 02:09 UTC
Yes, that got me going. The following: class { display: block; font-size: xx-large; } signature { display: block; font-size: large; margin-top: 1em } P { display: block; font-size: medium; font-family: georgia, bookman, serif; margin-top: 1em } was enough to get readable output in a browser from my posted XML file. It seems that IE doesn't handle the :before pseudo-tag.	[reply]


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