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Mozilla + CSS + XML = Structured, Formatted Content

Posted by timothy on from the my-god-it's-full-of-standards dept.

Saqib Ali writes "Publishing XML content on the web requires some heavy processing on the server. There are many publishing framework (AxKit, Cocoon, etc) available in the market. However they are very CPU intensive. Apple's Internet Developer has a article on how to use CSS along with your XML content to render the formatted content in the Mozilla Web browser. It is very interesting read, especially for people who want to start creating content in XML, but don't want to invest in a expensive processing server/application. They have a nice example of RSS feed (XML) formatted for publishing in the browser."

4 of 28 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Moving processing from servers to clients? by Assimil8or · · Score: 1, Informative

    This exampe works with Phoenix, too! =)
    Even in Opera 7,.. IE (5) has some problems,.. ;)

  2. Re:Moving processing from servers to clients? by Komarosu · · Score: 2, Informative

    IE 5.5 is fine here.

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  3. Re:XSLT? by vbweenie · · Score: 4, Informative

    One typical use of XSLT is as a translator between marked-up data (XML) exported from somewhere and a marked-up hypertext document (HTML) presenting that data or a subset of it for the web.

    Neither the XML nor the HTML will necessarily contain any formatting information beyond HTML's fairly basic set of tags, so you might still need CSS to finesse the layout and appearance.

    An alternative is to translate from XML via XSLT into XSL:FO, and from there into PDF (using Apache's FOP). This is a still-maturing technology, however, and it's a bit verbose for my liking - but you can say that about most of the X* family...

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  4. Re:Bah. Boring. What's NEEDED is this: by Felipe+Hoffa · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe gSOAP is the answer for your needs.

    It is a library for C and C++ that generates codes for using (as a client) or providing (as a service) web services using the SOAP standard (based on XML).

    If you give gSOAP a header file with the methods and structures of your code, it will generate all the needed methods and XML descriptors without giving you much trouble. From there it will be easy to serialize all your data in and out, and you won't have to care about the details of the XMLs. As an added benefit you will be able to share your data with software written in several other languages.

    Fh