On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Ayose <zubzet@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > we will most likely need at least one XLST that extracts a much > > > simpler format to be used in the About dialog. > > > > How "simpler"? Something like > > > > name, author (email), comments > > all we need are simple list of names. Or do we want email addresses in > the about dialog and the AUTHORS file? I think not. The transformation > wouldn't be a real XSLT since what we need as output format is not > actually XML. I'd like to generate the plain-text file AUTHORS as well > as the header file app/gui/authors.h from the XML file. Wait a moment, please. Who says that XSLT only works with XML? With XSLT you can transform a XML file in everything: a plain-text, HTML, a new XML or even in C source. You only need put <xsl:output method="text"/> in the top-level. http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.html#section-Text-Output-Method > > Commenting on your proposal, I'd say that it probably makes sense to > organize the XML file by persons because we need more than only > plug-ins. So I was wrong > We also want to list core developers, tool authors, help > writers, web masters, screen designers, just everyone who contributed > to The GIMP. Well, imaging you want to know only his/her name and email, and put a comment about he/she The XML: <people> <person> <name>the name</name> <work><!-- here: core develp, tool authors, help writer...--></work> <email>email</email> <comment>A little comment</comment> </person> .... </people> For every person will be a <person> entry. And, for instance, if you want to get a list like name1, work1 name2, work2 name3, work3 [...] The XSLT will be <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:output method="text" /> <xsl:template match="people"> <xsl:for-each select="person"> <xsl:apply-templates select="name"/><xsl:text>,</xsl:text> <xsl:apply-templates select="work"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> There are a lot of chars, but the code is simple. :) Of course, with the same XML you can get a more detailed list about people. -- Ayose Cazorla León Debian GNU/Linux - setepo
