XSL/T

1 of 373 | XML Notepad 2007 - Microsoft released an editor for XML files, you can download it here.Handy features include:- Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values.- Incremental search (Ctrl+I) in both tree and text views, so as you type it navigates to matching nodes.- Cut/copy/paste with full namespace support.- Drag/drop support for easy manipulation of the tree, even across different instances of XML - Notepad and from the file system.- Infinite undo/redo for all edit operations.- In place popup multi-line editing of large text node values.- Configurable fonts and colors via the options dialog.- Full find/replace dialog with support for regex and XPath.- Good performance......

2 of 373 | Creating Xsl from Xsl - I've been working on creating an xsl stylesheet from an xml document transformed by a base xsl stylesheet.  The problem I was having is that the xsl elements I wanted to output were causing validation errors in VS2005.  Of course trying to googling creating xsl from xsl resulted in nothing that approached the problem. I finally stumbled on the solution.  Use the xsl:namespace-alias element to convert the namespace in the stylesheet  into another alias in the transform.  The microsft XSLT documentation covers the element and has some samples. Here is a simple base xsl stylesheet used first: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http:/......

3 of 373 | XPath Query - There are many tutorials explaining the syntax's of  XPathQuery. What gets me confused sometimes is the understanding of the match and select statements of the templates. Here is a simple example. The XML file that we are going to query is: School.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Apply.xslt"?> <School>   <title>The Xpath Exercise</title>   <people>     <teacher>       <FirstName>Henry</FirstName>       <age>45</age>       <description>Henry will be the tutor</description>       </teacher>       <student>       <FirstName>Jack</FirstName>  ......

4 of 373 | How to refer a XSLT file in a XML Dcoment - Suppose You have a XML File Jungle.xml. <?xml version="1.0"?> <project>   <title>The Xpath project</title> <problems>     <problem>       <title>Initial problem</title>       <description>We have to learn something about Location Path</description>       <difficulty level="5">This problem should not be too hard</difficulty>     </problem>     <solutions>       <item val="low">Buy a XSLT book</item>       <item val="low">Find an XSLT website</item>       <item val="high">Register for a XSLT course and do exercices</item>     </solutions>     <pro......

5 of 373 | Updating Word to XAML Converter - I have done a bit of work lately on my Word 2007 to XAML converter application to give it a bit more functionality in the following areas: Table VML Graphics Correctly handling default styles and character styles Tables (WPF) I have implemented rudimentary conversion from Word 2007 tables to WPF <Table> elements.  This doesn’t contain grid lines yet but the cell data is now coming over. VML Graphics (WPF) I have started a new XSL Transformation for VML to WPF XAML.  This has been quite trick because of the ability for WordML to contain VML elements and for VML to contain WordML elements.  I’ve implemented rectangles, rounded rectangles, and groups so far.......

6 of 373 | Can RDF really save us from data format proliferation? - Bill de hÓra has a blog post entitled Format Debt: what you can't say where he writes The closest thing to a deployable web technology that might improve describing these kind of data mashups without parsing at any cost or patching is RDF. Once RDF is parsed it becomes a well defined graph structure - albeit not a structure most web programmers will be used to, it is however the same structure regardless of the source syntax or the code and the graph structure is closed under all allowed operations. If we take the example of MediaRSS, which is not consistenly used or placed in syndication and API formats, that class of problem more or less evaporates via RDF. Likewise if we take the ......

7 of 373 | How to: Add a column in search results page - Add a column in document library(exp. tjcolumn) Add an item in this document library and fill in the column value Go to search settings in SSP Go to content sources Crawl the content Go to metadata properties Create a new metadata property Add mapping(tjprop) to column(it should be like ows_tjcolumn(text)) Crawl the content Go to search site Go to core results webpart, modify web part properties Go to results query options -> selected columns Add a column here(exp. <column name="tjprop" />) Go to data view properties -> xsl editor Check for the below portion and add the column as mentioned in highlighted part, save and exit......

8 of 373 | Notes on BizTalk 2009 - earlier this week Microsoft announced the release of the beta version of BizTalk 2009. I’m sure detailed posts of various bits will follow soon, but for now I thought I’d list a few points I’ve picked up (in no particular order)- BizTalk projects are now “first class citizens” of Visual Studio [2008]; in practice it seems they are really “special” c# projects. This means quite a lot really, to start with, for the most part they look and feel like c# projects (in the beta build the icon for the project is even the c# icon), but this extends to the property pages, existence of assemblyinfo.cs and the project file structure (which is now pretty much standard msbuild file) It also means ......

9 of 373 | Customizing High Confidence Search Result for People search in MOSS 2007 - OOTB when searching for a person using "PreferredName", "WorkEmail", "UserName" and "AccountName", along with the core search result (Displayed via Search Core Result webpart) person's information is also displayed using "Search High Confidence Results" webpart (Same webpart used for Best bet) as exact match. By default following properties are included in the high confidence search result: Title Skills Work Email Work Phone Department Office About Me Responsibility Following steps allows administrators to add additional information (e.g. Cell Phone or any custom profile property) to the resultset. Step 1 Fro......

10 of 373 | Deploying ClickOnce applications automated using FinalBuilder - Remark : If you’re not using FinalBuilder but plain MSBuild, you can most likely benefit from the tutorial below as well. In this tutorial I’ll try to explain what I’ve done to automate the build for a ClickOnce application. I’m using FinalBuilder because this is the best tool I know to automate your build. What MSBuild requires you to do in huge XML files, FinalBuilder lets you do in an excellent GUI where you can set breakpoints, step through, etc, etc. I’ve used it since ages and can’t live without it anymore. So should you! ClickOnce uses two manifests, the application manifest and the deployment manifest. I won’t go into details, read more here on MSDN. Visual Studio normally does al......

11 of 373 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Form Reporter - I recently posted the Microsoft CRM 4.0 Form Reporter in MSDN Code Gallery. Form Reporter is an application that creates a Word 2007 document detailing the configuration of all customizable Microsoft CRM 4.0 forms, including tabs, sections and information about each field. This document can be used for planning form customizations or documenting the current state of form customizations. This solution requires Word 2007 and .NET Framework 3.5. Microsoft CRM 4.0 Form Reporter uses the exported customizations.xml file. You must have a copy of this file to use the Form Reporter. For best results, the exported file should include all entities because relationships defined between any missing......

12 of 373 | XSLT - if then else - If you try and implement if then else logic in XSLT in the same way that you would in a procedural language then you'll probably end up tying yourself in knots.   I had some XSLT to write today where I simply needed to check the existance of an attribute in the source document. If it existed then I would execute and addition against the value else I would substitue for a zero.   I had initially approached this with something like:   <xsl:choose>   <xsl:when test="referenceToElemen/@attribute">     <xsl:variable name="x" select = "referenceToElemen/@attribute">   </xsl:when>   <xsl:otherwise>      <xsl:variable name="x">0</xsl:variable> ......

13 of 373 | Live from PDC 2008 - Tomorrow I will leave for Los Angeles for PDC 2008.  I will be blogging from the conference in real time to discuss all of the exciting sessions I plan on attending.  I also have a few posts queued up around my recent work with SharePoint search.  One will be a make it real post on how to quickly build your own custom search web parts and another on how to reference the keywords used in a search in xsl without custom code.  ...

14 of 373 | Issues converting Visual Studio 2005 Projects to Visual Studio 2008. - Previously I wrote about Problems after Installing VS 2008 side-by-side with VS 2005 and that Visual studio conversion wizard opens each time for converted 2008 solution.   There were a few Web Application Projects that failed to convert without any reason. The Upgrade file was just like this:     <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='_UpgradeReport_Files/UpgradeReport.xslt'?> <UpgradeLog> <Event ErrorLevel="3" Project="TSA.Testing.AssemblyTest2" Source="main\TSA\Testing\TSA.Testing.AssemblyTest\TSA.Testing.AssemblyTest2.csproj" Description="Not Converted"> </Event></UpgradeLog> One of the project on my local machine had the following line   <......

15 of 373 | Requirements of Japanese Text Layout Draft Published - 2008-10-15: Participants from four W3C Groups CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups as part of the Japanese Layout Task Force published an update of Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. This draft contains most of the material which the task force intends to publish as a Group Note in December 2008. A Japanese version is also available. Learn more about W3C's Internationalization Activity. (Permalink)...

16 of 373 | Documenting a Microsoft SQL Server Database - I've just completed the first release of MSSqlSchemaDoc on codeplex! The application is used to extract the schema of a SQL database into XML files (one per object). I decided not to use SMO (Sql Management Objects) since they are quite slow when extracting this level of data (they issue multiple queries per object, instead of just the one or two that I do). It all works by defining classes which represent database objects, like tables, views, etc. These classes are decorated with attributes which control how the objects get serialized to XML. XSD schemas specify the expected structure of the XML and are used to validate each serialized object. Some of the work that still needs t......

17 of 373 | Best Practice to create designer friendly server controls - SharePoint Designer 2007 is a ground breaking design tool to help information workers and designers create context rich composite applications without writing single line of code. SharePoint Designer enables many interesting customization and app building scenarios that might not have been originally envisioned by the control developers. Moreover the control preview and persistence mechanism is built on top of the Whidbey control designer framework which is inherently different from the ASP.Net runtime behaviors. That’s the reason sometimes control developers might be surprised to find out controls which work perfectly in browsers might not work at all in SharePoint Designers. Most of the t......

18 of 373 | Parameterized sorting in XSLT - XSLT is used frequently for presentation purposes, for example to turn a data payload into a browser-ready HTML page. A good presentation layer is culture-aware, and this is where things get interesting. By default, the xsl:sort element will sort based on the system default. This may not be what you want; your front-end, middle-tier and back-end might have very different default settings, and you'll want to pick the right one. Thankfully this is straightforward to accomplish with stylesheets. You can simply use a parameter to indicate which language you want to use for sorting, and then refer to that parameter in your xsl:sort elements. You can save the following content to a .js file an......

19 of 373 | Antenna house 4.3 Released - This is a major release of Antenna House XSL Formatter that adds a 64-bit Windows version of Formatter and two major options, the INX Creator Option and the CGM Option....

20 of 373 | Antenna house 4.3 Released - This is a major release of Antenna House XSL Formatter that adds a 64-bit Windows version of Formatter and two major options, the INX Creator Option and the CGM Option....

21 of 373 | Antenna house 4.3 Released - This is a major release of Antenna House XSL Formatter that adds a 64-bit Windows version of Formatter and two major options, the INX Creator Option and the CGM Option....

22 of 373 | Antenna house 4.3 Released - This is a major release of Antenna House XSL Formatter that adds a 64-bit Windows version of Formatter and two major options, the INX Creator Option and the CGM Option....

23 of 373 | Antenna house 4.3 Released - This is a major release of Antenna House XSL Formatter that adds a 64-bit Windows version of Formatter and two major options, the INX Creator Option and the CGM Option....

24 of 373 | Where did it go? - You've created your map, selected your schemas and (if you're anything like me) set the custom xsl path to the file containing the xsl script you've worked hard to create. You then go to the orchestration and add a transform shape, but when you select the messages the designer notices you have selected different types to those in the map and kindly offers to change the types in the map for you; you think - how generous and kind... However, it goes one step further, and without much notice, it is re-setting the custom xsl path (to nothing, that is), which would result in an empty output from the map when you run the process and one very frustrated BizTalk developer. To be fair it does sug......

25 of 373 | SharePoint Conference - Building a SharePoint Designer Mashup (Part Deux) -   Hi everyone.  For those of you who have been waiting on Part 2 of this blog, I am truly sorry.  A valuable lesson that I've learned is - Don't break a blog article into multiple parts :)  With that said, let's get right to it. For those of you who need a refresher on Part 1 (and who can blame you), please go here. Today, I will walk through the 2 remaining things that I demo'd at the SharePoint Conference.  Building an advanced view with an ASP.NET calendar control and a data view Adding an MSN Weather RSS feed I will be working off the same site and scenario that I used from Part 1, which is to build a SharePoint site to manage my golf course and golf shop b......

26 of 373 | XML Notepad 2007 - Microsoft released an editor for XML files, you can download it here.Handy features include:- Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values.- Incremental search (Ctrl+I) in both tree and text views, so as you type it navigates to matching nodes.- Cut/copy/paste with full namespace support.- Drag/drop support for easy manipulation of the tree, even across different instances of XML - Notepad and from the file system.- Infinite undo/redo for all edit operations.- In place popup multi-line editing of large text node values.- Configurable fonts and colors via the options dialog.- Full find/replace dialog with support for regex and XPath.- Good performance......

27 of 373 | Content Query Webpart - Deploy Custom Style - Problem:  I want to deploy my custom style for the Content Query Web Part (CQWP).   The CQWP is using the following files to style its presentation: ContentQueryMain.xsl, Header.xsl and ItemStyle.xsl. The files are located under /Style Library/XSL Style Sheets in the root site.   The first solution that comes into my mind is to replace the OOTB xslt files with our customized files. It will work if you do it as a manual operation from the Sharepoint UI but it will not work from the site definition (onet.xml) or from a feature. Also this solution doesn’t provide you an independent solution that doesn’t interfere with Microsoft possible updates.   Solution:  ContentByQueryWebPart is th......

28 of 373 | Use a dataview to create a color table from XML -   I’m Steve Schermerhorn, one of the new developers on the Expression Web team.   When I’m developing a website or application I’m typically dealing with a wide range of colors throughout my project. On more than one occasion it would have been really handy to have a visual reference that also mapped the colors to their names and hex values. I eventually managed to come up with a solution using an XSL to transform an XML file into a nice little color reference table I could print off and hang on my wall. This little ‘how to’ is going to give you a very hands on example on how you can take an XML file and create an HTML page.   The data For this example I started with ......

29 of 373 | Otsingu tulemuse täiendamine lingiga, mis viib dokumendi kaardile - SharePointi dokumentide kasutajana oled kindlasti ka igapäevane otsimootori kasutaja. Kui sa oma otsinguga midagi ette võtnud veel pole siis otsitulemus on sul selline: Oluline on siinkohal ära märkida, et tulemuses leiduv link viib sind otse dokumendi avamisele. Ehk vajutades lingil "Leping Valge taevas.docx" avab sulle konkreetse dokumendi. Mis siis aga kui sa enne tahaksid dokumendi registrikaarti avada ja dokumenti ennast ei tahaks üldse lugeda ? Keeruline ülesanne jällegi, eksole. Kuidas siis jõuda dokumendi otsingu juures järgmise tulemuseni: Ülaltoodud pildil: 1. veerus kuvatakse dokumendi nimi ja link otse do......

30 of 373 | Creating Master-Detail views with Web Part connections using Flickr Services as a Data Source - Hi everyone, Allan Smith here. I’m a Software Development Engineer in Test on the SharePoint Designer Data team. I have a great example of using a server-side script data source to create Master-Detail views using the DataFormWebPart. My finished example is show in this screen shot: I will use Flickr services as my data source in this example thus there are a few pre-requisites before we can get started. Flickr requires an API key in order to use their service but this is easy to setup by visiting their site at http://www.flickr.com/services/api/. I also recommend reading through their API methods to see what is available via this service. For this example I have decided to use the flickr.......

31 of 373 | Troubleshooting a performance issue with Failed Request Tracing and appcmd in IIS7 - I know I'm a little late in the game, but I decided that after vacation it was finally time for me to install Windows 2008 on my Vista box and play around with some of the IIS 7 features like Failed Request Tracing (known as FRT or FREB) and the appcmd tool. I wanted to show you an alternative way of troubleshooting Lab 1 (hang scenario) from my Debugging Lab series using Failed Request Tracing and appcmd so here are some things I will go through in this post Setting up failed request tracing Listing executing requests with appcmd Using Page.Trace with failed request tracing Setting up different FREB rules and looking at the differences between them Short notes about failed request tra......

32 of 373 | Document and Code Generation by LINQ and XSL - An article on how to generate source code as well as populate Excel Spreadsheets....

33 of 373 | Muenchian Grouping and Sorting in BizTalk Maps - First, I'll admit the title of this post isn't entirely accurate, because you can't do the grouping and sorting I'm about to show using the BizTalk mapper.  We'll be overriding the XSLT for a BizTalk map, so therefore it might be more appropriate to call this "Muenchian Grouping and Sorting in XSLT."  But since I'm doing this from a BizTalk perspective, I can live with the subtle difference. :) Let's say I have a flat file schema to import sales order information.  Being a flat file, we can assume that it's completely denormalized, meaning there won't be defined relationships and we'll have redundant data.  Let's take a simplified flat file that looks somethin......

34 of 373 | xmlroff 0.6.0 released - Version 0.6.0 of xmlroff has been released; it is an open source XSL-FO implementation. Changes include a more flexible BSD-based license, PNG graphics support in the Cairo back-end, and improved documentation....

35 of 373 | Standardization as a collective loss of imagination? - Regularly as clockwork, every five years another group attempts to make a new standard language for typesetting. FOSI, DSSSL, XSL-FO, and ODF (plus the less grandiose scopes of CSS (styling) and OOXML (legacy).) I predict that in a decade we... ...

36 of 373 | BAM and MsBuild - Article Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson This article is intended to explain how to use MsBuild to help you when using BAM on a BizTalk project. When you use BAM one of the positives is that you have BM.exe and BTTDeploy.exe which can be used to help you do this deployment etc. However as I have mentioned in previous posts I feel one of the things that is a barrier to helping people get up and running with BAM is that there isn’t really anything (that I’ve seen anyway) which helps you to explain how your BAM work would fit into your normal solution development build and continuous integration processes. To try to address this barrier hopefully this article will provide......

37 of 373 | The XML Apache Project has posted version 0.95 of FOP, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF/PostScript/RTF converter written in Java. - The XML Apache Project has posted version 0.95 of FOP, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF/PostScript/RTF converter written in Java. This release fixes bugs, improves table support, and removes the need for some additional libraries. Java 1.4 or later is required....

38 of 373 | Playing with ListStyles.xsl for CQWP in MOSS - Although new to all this MOSS stuff I am getting stuck in with the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) and XSL.  They are a pretty powerful combination, but pretty soon I could see how this could become slightly wild and considering ListStyles.xsl is an "out of the box" file, getting crazy with custom files could become more of a problem than simply a huge file.  Check out these two posts on how to manage custom styles. 1. Liam (Sharepoint MVP here in the UK) posts about editing the ListStyles.xsl, but only to add import statements to your own custom csl files. 2. Brendon Swartz post about how to create a new CQWP instance by exporting the default one, editing the webparts xml definition by......

39 of 373 | [Dimitre Novatchev:XSL-List] Understanding JSON: Why JSON and XML are Incompatible and Why You Should Care - Dimitre Novatchev recently posted the following to XSL-List, something of which I thought would be of both interest and benefit to those of you in Land-O-XML who care about things kinds of things. As such, ......

40 of 373 | How We Did It - Tag Driven Information Architecture using MOSS 2007 for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport - Background About a year ago, Provoke (a Microsoft Gold Certified partner based in New Zealand) worked with the New Zealand Ministry of Transport to complete the second phase of their corporate intranet. In addition to being proven successful within the Ministry, the intranet won several awards including Microsoft’s Partner Solution of the Year and was named in Nielson Norman Group’s “Top Ten Intranets of 2008.” More information about this distinguished annual award from Jakob Nielson himself. Overview The Ministry of Transport (MoT) is a government agency that is responsible for creating transport related policy papers and reports for the New Zealand government. They wanted an intranet tha......

41 of 373 | The W3C has posted the first working draft of Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. - The W3C has posted the first working draft of Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. "This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However, it addresses also areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. The document is currently in draft stage. This public draft contains the Introduction and section 1 Basics of Japanese Text Layout. Further sections are available in a non-public version of the document and will be integrated into a further public Working Draft."...

42 of 373 | Latest tool: XPath query field extractor for InfoPath 2003 - Update: This tool seems to be only relevant with InfoPath 2003. A co-worker pointed out that due to customer pains around a the lack of a feature like this, in InfoPath 2007 you can right-click a node in the data source and choose "Copy XPath". Cool! Thanks to Scott Heim for pointing this out. So, I love making tools. One-off things that process something. Batch files that lessen monotony. Sexy little WinForm apps for displaying data. XSL transformations that regurgitate and pre-process XML. My latest tool is a small WinForms app that pulls out a list of fields form an InfoPath document so they can be referenced as XPath. This is pretty neat because my client needed a documentation a......

43 of 373 | Requirements of Japanese Text Layout Draft Published - 2008-04-11: Participants from four W3C Groups CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups as part of the Japanese Layout Task Force published Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. Japanese version is also available. Learn more about basics of Japanese text layout and W3C's Internationalization Activity. (Permalink)...

44 of 373 | Compiled XSLT in Biztalk Orchestrations - One of the new features in the Visual Studio 2008 release is the XSLT Compiler tool xsltc.exe.  The documentation can be found here.  This tool will precompile the xslt sheets into an assembly. It has been my experience over the years that the xsl mappings change more often than the message flows.  With the xsltc.exe tool the mappings can be changed, compiled and installed without changing the Biztalk orchestrations. First you need to create the xsl DLLs: xsltc.exe  /settings:document+,script+ myXsl.xsl This will create a DLL file with the compiled xsl.  There also might be DLLs for embedded scripts. To use the xsl DLLs the assemblies have to be signed.  Use ILDASM and ILASM to disasse......

45 of 373 | String.Replace() in XSLT - Here's a sample template that lets you have the String.Replace() functionality in XSLT 1.0.   The template "string-replace-all" takes 3 parameters and recursively processes the input text string.      text         : main string      replace : the string fragment to be replaced     by           :  the replacement string    Here's how it is called:  The resulting value of $myVar after {ReplaceMe} is replaced is "This is a sample text : String.Replace() in XSLT and String.Replace() in XSLT" For those who are not familiar with XSLT syntax and here's the C# equivalent.  An excellent material for the thedailywtf! :)  (Note: I'm not so sure, but I think in XSL 2.0......

46 of 373 | Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0; Comments Welcome on First Public Draft - 2008-03-26: The XSL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0. This document enumerates the collected requirements for a 2.0 version of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), not for XSLT. XSL-FO is widely deployed in industry and academia where multiple output forms (typically print and online) are needed from single source XML. It is used in many diverse applications and countries on a large number of implementations to create technical documentation, reports and contracts, terms and conditions, invoices and other forms processing, such as driver's licenses and postal forms. The XSL Working Group invites people to......

47 of 373 | XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published - The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features....

48 of 373 | XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published - The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features....

49 of 373 | XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published - The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features....

50 of 373 | XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Published - The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 have been published, along with a Survey to ask potential implementors and users for feedback on the relative importance of the proposed new features....