Re: Somewhat offtopic: xsl question

[Pedro Alves <pmalves@think.pt>]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:03:14PM -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> Hmmmmm ... not quite.
> 
> You say you are writing a stylesheet ... if it is an XSLT stylesheet then 
> its input is the UBL XML and its output is HTML, XML, text or some custom 
> set of extension output semantics supported by a given processor.
> 
> Your stylesheet name implies the output will (eventually) be an EDIFACT 
> message in some assumedly normative syntax ... but how are you getting the 
> result in that syntax?
> 
> If your stylesheet output is XML, then perhaps you have a postprocess that 
> reads an instance of an XML vocabulary reflecting the EDIFACT semantics 
> and outputs normative EDIFACT syntax (perhaps written using a SAX process).
> 
> If your stylesheet output is EDIFACT syntax,then perhaps you are using a 
> custom extension available in a processor (you could even use the SAX 
> process described above).
> 
> If your stylesheet technology isn't XSLT, then I'd be curious which 
> technology is supporting the EDIFACT semantics to produce the EDIFACT 
> syntax.
> 
> Many choices, which is why I was curious what your choice was (even if 
> "none of the above").


    Ken, I think you are far too ahead from me :)

    I'm even a bit shamed to say that my solution is as simple as :

    <xsl:template match="/in:Invoice">
        <!-- Cabecalho -->
        <xsl:call-template name="Header"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="Header">

        <!-- Unique identifyer -->
        <xsl:text>UNH+</xsl:text>
                <xsl:value-of select="in:ID" />
        <xsl:text>+INVOIC:D:93A:UN:EAN007'&#10;</xsl:text>

        <!-- Number -->
        <xsl:text>BGM+380+</xsl:text>
                <xsl:value-of select="in:ID" />
        <xsl:text>'&#10;</xsl:text>

        <!-- Date -->
        <xsl:text>DTM+137:</xsl:text>
                <xsl:value-of select="translate(cbc:IssueDate,'-','')" />
        <xsl:text>:102'&#10;</xsl:text>
    
..... etc


    If there are better ways to do this I really would like to learn them.
I have very little experience in XSLT.



    Pedro Alves