Fwd: gxml2html: generic XML to HTML conversion tool
It could be a nice tool to package, for those who cannot learn XSL without a
brain transplant (like me). It is free (Perl licence) and relies on stuff
which seems already packaged.
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Josh Carter <josh@spies.com>
To: "Perl-XML Mailing List" <perl-xml@listserv.activestate.com>
Subject: RE: XML to HTML
Hi all,
Tim Bray writes:
> Of course, some people feel that using XSLT requires an initial
> brain transplant. Me, I just tend to write old perl scripts relying
> on XML::Parser's "stream" style and a few state variables and
> hand-generate the HTML with print statements.
That's why I built my gxml2html program. It doesn't try to solve all
the world's problems like XSLT, but it's _way_ better than state
variables and hard-coded HTML translations. Instead it uses templates
with variables that get filled in with document attributes, supports
recursive templates, and generally makes it very easy to publish HTML
sites from a pile of XML documents. Here's the link:
http://multipart-mixed.com/xml/
I use it for all the web sites I'm doing now, and I've been very happy
with it. I like to hand-code my HTML and not rely on "intelligent"
code generators since they usually product crap. As such, hand-coding
my templates is a _good_ thing. I was pretty disappointed with stuff I
was finding on the net to map XML entities into chunks of HTML -- most
had their HTML hard-coded and weren't generic at all -- so I built my
own generic translator on top of XML::Parser.
Best regards,
Josh
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