Example to transform xml to text file

[CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr]

Folks
I am new to XSL and XSLT. I have xml file. I want to transform it in a
text file.
IS there any way or example that i can learn and see.
thanks

[Joseph Kesselman]

CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr wrote:

I am new to XSL and XSLT. I have xml file. I want to transform it in a
text file.

First you need to decide what information you want to copy out of the
XML file, in what order.

Then write an XSLT stylesheet which yields that data, using the
<xsl:output method="text"/> directive to say you want to produce bare
text rather than XML or HTML markup.

Check the web for XSLT tutorials; some of 'em must illustrate this...
--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

[Jeff Calico]

This previous discussion between Joe and myself may be useful to you;
if not precisely the blank lines problem...

"unwanted blank lines in output when using xalan" Feb 7

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....5d57d40d7ad3e3

--Jeff

[CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr]

ok
here is a sample of my xml file

msg>
<date>2006-02-19</date>
<time>10:52:05</time>
<sender>syed</sender>
<receiver>#IRC</receiver>
<data>kjkk</data>
</msg>

I want output to be in this form in text file

(Date:time) sender data receiver

example

(2006-02-19:10:52:05) syed kjkk #IRC

thank

[Joe Kesselman]

XSLT is a programming language. There are multiple ways the simple
transform you've described could be written. Which is best depends on
what you're doing.

In any case, this really is something you ought to be able to write for
yourself after reading an XSLT tutorial or two; it's not much more than
"hello world". I'm afraid I'm going to refer you to those resources;
you'll learn more from those than from my handing you the answer.

[Andrew Schorr]

Using xgawk from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlgawk, you can solve
the problem
with this script:

xgawk -lxml '
{
switch (XMLEVENT) {
case "STARTELEM":
if (XMLNAME == "msg")
delete data
name = XMLNAME
break
case "CHARDATA":
if ($1 != "")
data[name] = $0
break
case "ENDELEM":
if (XMLNAME == "msg")
printf "(%s:%s) %s %s
%s\n",data["date"],data["time"],data["sender"],data["data"],data["receiver"]
break
}
}'

[Daniel Parker]

"CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr" <sy*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Folks
I am new to XSL and XSLT. I have xml file. I want to transform it in a
text file.
IS there any way or example that i can learn and see.
thanks

Have a look at the XML-to-flat examples in
http://servingxml.sourceforge.net/.

Regards,
Daniel Parker