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convert xml to html

hi guys.. i need some help here... can someone tell mi how could i publish xml formated documents to html formated documents?? thanks ..

Well, it all depends. XML is just structured data - the XML tags have no specific meaning - their meaning is what you make it out to be. You can read the data and transform it using technologies such as XSLT, or SAX parsers or the DOM. Here's a quick example using Python and minidom, that transforms a simple piece of XML into a HTML document:

XML file (xmlpage.xml):

<page>

  Hello there. <link url="http://www.google.com">This links to Google</link>. This is some <bold>bold text</bold>. Bye bye!

</page>

Python script:

import sys

import xml.dom.minidom as minidom



document = minidom.parse("xmlpage.xml")

page = document.childNodes[0]

print "<html>"

print "<head><title>Generated page</title></head>"

print "<body>"

for child in page.childNodes:

    if child.nodeType == minidom.Node.TEXT_NODE:

        sys.stdout.write(child.data)

    elif child.nodeType == minidom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE:

        if child.nodeName == "link":

            sys.stdout.write('<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (child.getAttribute("url"), child.childNodes[0].data))

        elif child.nodeName == "bold":

            sys.stdout.write('<strong>%s</strong>' % (child.childNodes[0].data))

print "</body>"

print "</html>"

Output:

<html>

<head><title>Generated page</title></head>

<body>



  Hello there. <a href="http://www.google.com">This links to Google</a>. This is some <strong>bold text</strong>. Bye bye!

</body>

</html>

hmmm thanks man.. i dont quite know what is python script. could you tell me? thanks in advance.

Hm, I think you may be over-shooting your mark in your attempt of this, with no programming knowledge.
Possibly look into a system that does this for you?

XSLT is made for conversions such as this

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

actually i new to programming. this is a assignment so i have no choice. but anyway thanks guys. i'll do the research. thanks for the help again.

Do you know C++. There is something on www.sourceforge.net called TinyXML. I have downloaded it but I haven't used it.