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I need to represent the content of pattr generated XML files in a 

human-readable form, eg. as abulated and properly line-fed ASCII 

files that can be emailed and read on any computer. I guess I can 

write a parser in Java or Ruby, but this is going to be a fairly 

boring excercise, plus I have a gut feeling that I'll be reinventing 

I had a look at off-the-shelf XML editors, but the Oxygen thing I 

found is huge, much too sophisticated and expensive.

Anyone have tips/shortcuts/brilliant ideas?

I need to represent the content of pattr generated XML files in a  
human-readable form, eg. as abulated and properly line-fed ASCII  
files that can be emailed and read on any computer. I guess I can  
write a parser in Java or Ruby, but this is going to be a fairly  
boring excercise, plus I have a gut feeling that I'll be reinventing  
the wheel.
I had a look at off-the-shelf XML editors, but the Oxygen thing I  
found is huge, much too sophisticated and expensive.

xml-question

Converting XML to other formats is the function of XSLT, which comes bundled

with oXygen. Although oXygen is large and not cheap, if you want to do this

yourself, it is probably the best way of doing it. Thankfully the app comes

with a free fully functional 30-day demo mode, so if you want to try it

Just stripping markup and formatting text is one of the standard tasks in

XSLT, and a recipe is given in Sal Mangano's "XSLT Cookbook", O'Reilly, ISBN

XSLT also makes the trip to HTML easy if you want formatted output, and

oXygen comes with some nice examples. If you want to go to PostScript or

Acrobat PDF, then it gets a big harder, using FO, which is again part of

oXygen. You can also go to RTF if you prefer, using free 3rd party tools.

The Works columnist for MacUser magazine (UK)

Converting XML to other formats is the function of XSLT, which comes bundled
with oXygen. Although oXygen is large and not cheap, if you want to do this
yourself, it is probably the best way of doing it. Thankfully the app comes
with a free fully functional 30-day demo mode, so if you want to try it
first, then you can do so at no cost.

Just stripping markup and formatting text is one of the standard tasks in
XSLT, and a recipe is given in Sal Mangano's "XSLT Cookbook", O'Reilly, ISBN
0-596-00974-7.

XSLT also makes the trip to HTML easy if you want formatted output, and
oXygen comes with some nice examples. If you want to go to PostScript or
Acrobat PDF, then it gets a big harder, using FO, which is again part of
oXygen. You can also go to RTF if you prefer, using free 3rd party tools.

Dr Howard Oakley
The Works columnist for MacUser magazine (UK)
http://www.macuser.co.uk/
http://www.howardoakley.com/

Or, you could probably grab some of the open-source xslt libraries 

They work great, they are considered the standard of xslt 

Or, you could probably grab some of the open-source xslt libraries  
from apache-jakarta.

They work great, they are considered the standard of xslt  
implementations in the java world.

xml question