Subject: RE: RE: Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the hidden stuff
From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 12:18:58 -0400
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The direct answer is, "Because I didn't think of it." Having now tried it, I can tell you that it strips away all the XML markup from the document, leaving only the element contents.
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Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Fawcett <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 02 May 2006 17:12:06 +0100
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the hidden stuff
Charles
I may have missed something in your post but if you need commented output
why can't you use the xsl:comment element?
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Joe
>From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the hidden
>stuff
>Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 12:04:47 -0400
>
>I have a task to produce files for Excel 2000 from XML documents returned
>from a database query.
>
>I started by saving a typical Excel file to a .htm file and began modifying
>it to produce an XSLT stylesheet. For the most part, this has not been a
>challenge. For the most part. But now comes the PITA (and that's not greek
>flatbread).
>
>Round one:
>Excel codes it's html style element by surrounding the content with comment
>markers (i.e., <-- -->). So my first thought was to enclose the
>content of the style element within a <xsl:text
>disable-output-escaping="yes"> element. But all that produced was an empty
>set of style tags (<style></style>).
>
>Round two:
>I decided to use the shameful <![CDATA[ ]]> markup. Well that produced what
>I was looking for between the opening and closing <style> tags, and the
>correct styling appeared in the document when view with MS-Excel.
>
>But wait! There's more! (apologies to all non-U.S. residents who never saw
>a "Popeil" or "RONCO" ad on television).
>
>Round three:
>Just below the <style> section, and still in the <head> section, Excel
>places an XML document which gives additional information used when the
>file is viewed by Excel rather than with a browser. When left in the
>stylesheet "bare", that is to say without remarking it out in some way, the
>markup appears in the top, left-most cell of the Excel spreadsheet. Since
>the point of this exercise was to produce an Excel document that would
>require no further editing, deleting the cell's contents manually is not an
>option.
>
>Round four:
>So I tried to cause a set of HTML/XML comment delimitters to appear around
>this piece of markup, but to no avail. What worked for the <style> contents
>(enclosing it in !<[CDATA[ ]]>) caused all the angle brackets in the XML
>markup to appear as escaped characters.
>
>Round five:
>I next tried to place the whole XML document inside an <xsl:text
>disable-output-escaping="yes"> set of tags, but that caused Saxon's sax
>parser to object to character markup that was not well-formed.
>
>Round six:
>I next tried to enclose only the comment delimitters in <$[cdata[ ]]>
>elements. See the paragraph immediately above.
>
>I think I've worn him out punching me. I need just one little trick to
>knock him out, but I'm out of ideas
>
>Thanks for sticking with me so far. Now you know what I've done and a
>variety of things that don't work. Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>--
>Charles Knell
>cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
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