Keith’s Blog

[Read this for an introduction to what I'm talking about].

The first step of doing anything useful with MX is the ability to get back out into MIF. Thankfully, this is an entirely trivial job in XSLT.

[This code thanks to my boss, Andrew Savikas.]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <!-- author: Andrew Savikas, O'Reilly Media -->

  <xsl:output method="text" encoding="ascii"/>
  <xsl:strip-space elements="_facet"/>

  <xsl:template match="/|MIF_ROOT">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

<!-- This template needs to remain flush left for correct output -->
<xsl:template match="_facet">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The code is also available here or darcs get http://kfahlgren.com/code/mx/.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm and is tagged Code, FrameMaker, MX, Work, XML, XSLT. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.