On Feb 4, 7:51 am, "Joe Fawcett" <joefawc...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> "javelin" <jmevalen...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:b9541f4d-4ba1-491f-a925-800c0079aa30@l......
>
> > I've "manually" created an XML file in the following format:
>
> > <notes>
> >   <note>
> >      <note_date>1/1/2008</note_date>
> >      <note_text>This is the FIRST note</note_text>
> >      <createdby>John Doe</createdby>
> >   </note>
> >   <note>
> >      <note_date>1/15/2008</note_date>
> >      <note_text>This is the SECOND note</note_text>
> >      <createdby>Donald Trump</createdby>
> >   </note>
> >   <note>
> >      <note_date>2/2/2008</note_date>
> >      <note_text>This is the THIRD note</note_text>
> >      <createdby>Jane Doe</createdby>
> >   </note>
> > </notes>
>
> > I can easily load and screen print the whole file, but I need to
> > format it like a table, each <note> tag being a separate row, each
> > child element being a field. I thought of XSL, but I only know how to
> > hard code an XSL stylesheet into the XML file. It would have to be
> > dynamic, since I have a different notes xml file for each client
> > record, and I may have a different stylesheet for each one.
>
> > Can anyone give me the simplified version of how to handle this (with
> > or without stylesheets)?
>
> > Thx!
>
> Do you mean that you have a different physical notes.xml for each client and
> they are the same structure?
> If so you just need to decide where you want to do the transform, I assume
> client-side as the notes files appear to be on your machine.
>
> In that case write an HTML page (or an HTA application) that has an input
> button of type file to browse for the notes.xml you need to view. It then
> loads the XSLT and transforms the XML via scripting of the DomDocument.
> There are many examples of this sort of thing in the MSXML core services
> SDK,http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms763742(VS.85).aspx.
>
> The basics are:
>
> 1) Load the XML file into DomDocument
> 2) Load the XSLT file. If you are going for re-use then look at
> IXSLTemplate/IXSLProcessor
> 3) Perform the transform
> 4) Use the resulting HTML to populate the innerHTML of a suitable div in the
> page.
>
> --
>
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
>
> http://joe.fawcett.name


By "Perform the transform", do you mean programmatically, on the fly?