CSCI 7818

Topics in Software Engineering: XML Techniques, Tools, Standards

Transforming an XML Document

This assignment asks you to transform an XML document into an HTML document using an XSLT processor.

In particular, you should transform pt.xml, which contains an XML version of the periodic table of the elements, into pt.html. The HTML document contains only a subset of the information contained in the XML document.

Specifics

You should turn in the following items:

• The XSLT stylesheet that you wrote to perform the transformation.
• The HTML file that is generated when an XSLT processor uses your stylesheet to process the pt.xml file.

Send these files to me in the body of an e-mail message (e.g. plain ASCII text). No attachements!

Retrieving the Files

In addition to the URLs above, you can access the pt.html and pt.xml files from my public_ftp directory. To access my public ftp directory, use the following information:

Server: ftp.cs.colorado.edu
Directory: /users/kena/

Due Date

Your stylesheet and generated HTML file are due by start of class, October 19, 2000.

Questions?

As usual, please send any questions that you have to <kena@cs.colorado.edu>.

Note: I made use of the Xalan XSLT processor, while creating and testing this assignment (on my Mac!). pt.html is an HTML file that was directly generated by Xalan as a result of running Xalan on an XSL stylesheet that I created.