On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Archie Russell wrote:

>  
>  hi, i'm looking for a tool recommendation for the following project.  the
>  tool needs
>  to run on solaris.
>  
>  i have a large volume of xml (and a lot of compute power too) which i need
>  to transform
>  into a simple non-xml format.
>  
>  the xml is somewhat like this
>  
>  <a>
>     big a here
>  	<b>xxx</b>
>  	<c>yyy<c>
>  </a>
>  
>  it needs to map to something like
>  
>  -A- big a here
>  -B- xxx
>  -C- yyy
>  -end-
>  
>  but, <a> tags can be nested.  so we have something like
>  
>  <a>
>     big a here
>  	<b>xxx</b>
>  	<c>yyy<c>
>  	<a>
>    	little a here
>  		<c>zzz<c>
>  	</a>
>  </a>
>  
>  that maps to 
>  
>  -A- big a here
>  -B- xxx
>  -C- yyy
>  -end-
>  -A- little a here
>  -B- xxx
>  -C- zzz
>  -end-
>  
>  the tricky part is, the <a> tags that are further down _sometimes_ "inherit"
>  elements from the ones that are further up in the heirarchy.   i also need
>  to do a little manipulation of the cdata, say upcase all the letters.
>  
>  anyway, i need a tool that will help me out.  i've been using xml::parser,
>  but it is a little
>  tedious.  is axkit appropriate?  some other xslt?  will they be able to do
>  this kind of thing?

They can, yes. Actually the tools in AxKit are right now tied into Apache,
but I'm hoping to be able to extract the XPathScript component, so that it
runs standalone (it used to, so it won't be too tricky). For more details
on XPathScript see my recent article on XML.com.

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