Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * mathieu wrote in comp.text.xml:
> >  I have the following xml file:
> >
> ><Elements>
> >  <Element>
> >    <A>1235</A>
> >    <B>Hello</B>
> >  </Element>
> >  ...
> ></Elements>
> >
> >I would like to produce a text file containing each Element per line
> >(xml element being separated let say by a whitespace).
> >
> >$ cat out.txt
> >12345 Hello
> >...
> >
> >  The correct solution would be to use fop and write an xsl document,
> >right ? Thanks for pointer to 'Hello World' example.
>
> XSLT would probably be a simple solution, yes. Note though that Apache
> FOP is a XSL Formatting Objects Processor, it's useful if you want to
> make complex graphical layouts, not for plain text. For XSLT tutorials,
> try a search engine of your choice.

Thanks Bj=F6rn this is really helpful. Unfortunately there is very
little help on the web when it come to outputing text file. So far I
have (*). But the command using fop does not output anything:

 $ fop -xml dummy.xml -xsl dummy.xsl -txt out.txt

Thanks again !
Mathieu

(*)
$ cat dummy.xsl

<?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version=3D"1.0"
xmlns:xsl=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match=3D"/">
  <xsl:for-each select=3D"Elements/Element">
    <xsl:value-of select=3D"//A"/>
    <xsl:text>
    </xsl:text><!--produce a newline -->
    <xsl:value-of select=3D"//B"/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

$ cat dummy.xml

<?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type=3D"text/xsl" href=3D"dummy.xsl"?>
<Elements>
  <Element>
    <A>1235</A>
    <B>Hello</B>
  </Element>
  <Element>
    <A>4567</A>
    <B>World</B>
  </Element>
</Elements>