mathieu wrote:
> 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

Nevermind xsltproc worked out of the box, I'll use this tool instead.

  $ xsltproc dummy.xsl dummy.xml

Sorry for the noise,
Mathieu