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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