Mike Manchester wrote:
> I would like to do a couple of things in XML but I'm overwhelmed with
> all the stuff in freshmeat related to XML. So I'm seeking some guidance
> here.
>
> 1. I would like to put my resume in XML so that I can get output in
> three ways html, pdf and text. The problem is this. I have a resume that
> I paid someone to do for me. It looks very nice in MS Word. two columns
> etc. However this is not easy to paste into a Job site in plain text or
> HTML and I really don't want to maintain three different documents. Plus
> the fact it's in a proprietary Microsoft format. Since I would like to
> keep this in CVS and CVS stores the complete binary file OpenOffice is
> out as a means of doing this. I perfer plain text which I can edit with
> VI, thus XML seemed the right way to go. I thought by using XML I would
> have a document that I could manipulate however. So any suggestions on
> how/what I can use to do this would be appreciated. I've looked at a
> couple of solutions but I have not been able to get any of them to work
> with Redhat 7.3. Edoc was one. For some reason RedHat 7.3 doens't have
> Tk800.0_01.tar.gz installed and I can't seem to get it installed from
> CPAN. I also found a resume program on Freshmeat that does resumes but
> it's to restrictive for what I need to do.
>
A program you'll want to look into is called "XXE: The XMLmind XML
Editor." ( http://www.xmlmind.com/ ) It's written in Java, so it runs
anywhere, and uses the XML DTDs for Docbook (default is the Article DTD,
though you can add others) and for XHTML. If you write the stuff in
Docbook, there are a slew of tools which you can use to convert the
Docbook XML into whatever you want, however you want: Sax, XSLT, DSSSL,
Xalan, Xerces, so on and so forth. Here are some sources:
http://www.jclark.com
http://www.nwalsh.com
http://www.docbook.org
http://xml.apache.org
The freely available Docbook Book will helo you in understanding the
internals, but XXE does a great job of making XML Documentation dirt easy.
> 2. I would also like to find something that would allow me to create an
> XML document and export it to a comma delimited file for input into a
> spreadsheet or word processor. I'm up to writing code to do this would
> prefer Perl. But was hopping for a less work intensive solution.
>
Does anyone have a sed script that could do this?
> I have the Sam's book Teach Yourself XML in 24 hours. and this has been
> a big help with writing the XML. But not much help on what to do with it
> other than formating it in HTML for output to a web page.
>
You might also want to check out Wrox's XSLT book, which I found to be
extremely useful when I first started working with XML.
Gnorb
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