XslWebMaker Advanced Instructions - XML Source Files

First Published (Original Date):

2005-11-09%

Last Modified (Date):

2006-03-08%

Datetime Format:

EDTF with spaces.

Process pure ~\Source\*.xml files.

This involves two step processing using two .xslt files:

The first step process takes your pure ~\Source\*.xml file ...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<meetings xmlns="urn:johnbentley:philorum.meetings">
   ...
  <meeting date="2005-04-20">
    <note>
      <summary>
        Prejudice, generalisations, and judging individuals. 
        (Open Forum)
      </summary>
      <detail>
        "I am quietly judging you." defensively slurs Frank TJ Mackey, Tom Cruise in 
        Magnolia (1999), against the reporter exposing fraudulent credentials. 
        Even if we can remove our own:
        <ul>
          <li>prejudice about an individual and/or;</li>
          <li>false generalisations about groups an individual might 
            belong to; </li>
        </ul>
        Are all other types of judgement about individuals wrong? 
        Is it possible not to judge an individual?
      </detail>
    </note>
    <mc>John Bentley</mc>
  </meeting> 
  ...
</meetings>

... and transforms it using an *.xslt file, in the sample ~\Source\pastCalendar.xslt, into a ~\Source\*.html file, in the sample ~\Source\pastCalendar.html ...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xwmToXhtml.xslt" ?>
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xwm="urn:xslwebmaker:toxhtml">
  <head>
    ...
    <xwm:commonHead/>
    <xwm:directoryDependantHead/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <xwm:topArea/>
    <xwm:navigation/>
    <xwm:validators/>
    ...
    <table class="tableCalendar" ID="Table1">
      <col class="tableCalendarFirstColumn" />
      <thead onclick="return toggleTableBodyDisplay(this);"
      onmouseover="this.className='commandMouseOver';"
      onmouseout="this.className='';">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top">Wed 20 Apr 2005</td>
          <td class="summaryBar" valign="top" colspan="3">Prejudice,
          generalisations, and judging individuals. (Open Forum)</td>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody class="collapsable">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" colspan="4">"I am quietly judging you."
          defensively slurs Frank TJ Mackey, Tom Cruise in Magnolia
          (1999), against the reporter exposing fraudulent credentials.
          Even if we can remove our own: prejudice about an individual
          and/or; false generalisations about groups an individual
          might belong to; Are all other types of judgement about
          individuals wrong? Is it possible not to judge an
          individual?</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td valign="top">
            <p>MC</p>
          </td>
          <td valign="top" colspan="3">
            <p>John Bentley</p>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    ...
    <xwm:footer></xwm:footer>
  </body>
</html>

The second step is to transform this ~\Source\*.html file, ~\Source\pastCalendar.html, using xwmToXhtml.xslt, into

~\WebOut\pastCalendar.html. That is, into valid 
              XHTML ...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>

    ...
    <script type="text/javascript" src="TableToggle.js" xml:space="preserve">
    </script>
    <!-- Common head start -->
    <meta name="author" content="John Bentley" />
    <meta name="generator" content="John Bentley's XsltWebMaker." />
    <!-- Common head Finish -->
    ...
    <!-- rootHead head start -->
      <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="minimalist.css" />
      <script type="text/javascript" src="webDateTime.js" xml:space="preserve">
      </script>
    <!-- rootHead head Finish -->
    ...
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="topArea">
     ...
    </div>
    <div id="navigation">
      ...
    </div>
    <div id="validators">
      ...
    </div>
    
    ...
    <table class="tableCalendar" ID="Table1">
      <col class="tableCalendarFirstColumn" />
      <thead onclick="return toggleTableBodyDisplay(this);" onmouseover=
      "this.className='commandMouseOver';" onmouseout="this.className='';">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top">
            Wed 20 Apr 2005
          </td>
          <td class="summaryBar" valign="top" colspan="3">
            Prejudice, generalisations, and judging individuals. (Open Forum)
          </td>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody class="collapsable">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" colspan="4">
            "I am quietly judging you." defensively slurs Frank TJ Mackey, Tom
            Cruise in Magnolia (1999), against the reporter exposing fraudulent
            credentials. Even if we can remove our own: prejudice about an
            individual and/or; false generalisations about groups an individual
            might belong to; Are all other types of judgement about individuals
            wrong? Is it possible not to judge an individual?
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td valign="top">
            <p>
              MC
            </p>
          </td>
          <td valign="top" colspan="3">
            <p>
              John Bentley
            </p>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    ...
    <div id="websiteLastUpdated">
      Page updated: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:02 AUS Eastern Standard Time (UTC+1000)
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

This two step process is initiated within the make.bat. file ...

...

set xwmDestDir=..\WebOut

@Echo.
@echo Transforming Source .xml files into Intermediate xhtml .......
@echo This outputs as *.html files to source directory.
@echo.
rem  You probably only will want to customize the next line(s).
cscript.exe xwmEngine\TransformDir.wsf meetings.xml pastCalendar.xslt

@echo.
@echo Transforming Source files .......
@echo This outputs *.html files to %xwmDestDir%
@echo.
cscript.exe xwmEngine\TransformDir.wsf /destDir:%xwmDestDir% /destExt:.html
...

You will need to customize this make.bat. file according to your needs.