XML and Scripting Languages

By Parand Tony Darugar
2005-05-18

Converting XML to HTML

For the purposes of this article, we will use a stock quote, expressed as XML, as our input file:



 <stock_quote>

  <symbol>IBM</symbol>

  <when>

    <date>12/16/1999</date>

    <time>4:40PM</time>

  </when>

  <price type="ask"     value="109.1875"/>

  <price type="open"    value="108"/>

  <price type="dayhigh" value="109.6875"/>

  <price type="daylow"  value="105.75"/>

  <change>+2.1875</change>

  <volume>7050200</volume>

 </stock_quote>

This simple encoding captures information typically found in a stock quote. The formatting demonstrates certain XML features, such as attributes and empty tags. The actual XML file used in this article contains several stock_quote elements, to form a portfolio of stocks.

This XML file was created using a script to convert the Spreadsheet Format stock quotes provided by the finance.yahoo.com Web site into XML.

Tutorial Pages:
» Converting XML to HTML
» Simple substitution
» Function-based substitution
» Tree-based processing
» Active XML documents
» Storing tag contents
» Retrieving the rules
» Acting on the rules
» Next steps
» Resources

First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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