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MPF-Transformation (MPFT)
MPFT provides automatic conversion of database table files (XML) using formatter-tag library (XML).
I) create a database table file
1) create xml-file
create a text-file and rename it to "myfile.xml". then open created file with any text-editor and add the following code:
2) add root-node
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<page title="myTitle">
...
</page>
 | name of root-node must be lowercase (name of tag will become name of token) |
| you may define your own attributes for root-node |
3) add child-nodes
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<page title="myTitle">
<h1>firstParagraph</h1>
<p>you may <link url="http://www.xy.com">click here</link> to go...</p>
<pic url="http://www.xy.com/xy.gif"/>
</page>
| all child nodes must be lowercase and must not be named like root node |
| you may define your own attributes for (sub-)child-nodes |
| if data of your (sub-)child-nodes contain special characters (that are not compliant with XML) put them between CDATA-brackets |
II) create a formatter-tag library file
1) create xml-file
create a text-file and rename it to "myfile.xml". then open created file with any text-editor and add the following code:
2) add root-node
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<taglib>
...
</taglib>
| name of root-node must be lowercase and must end with "lib" (name of tag will become name of library-token) |
| attributes of root-node will be ignored |
3) add child-nodes
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<taglib>
<title>
<open>
<![CDATA[<div class="title" >]]>
</open>
<close>
<![CDATA[</div>]]>
</close>
</title>
</taglib>
| all child nodes must be lowercase and must not be named like root node |
| attributes of child-nodes attributes will be ignored |
| every child-node can have two sub-nodes named "open" and "close" |
| if data of your sub-nodes contain special characters (that are not compliant with XML) put them between CDATA-brackets |
A) automatic tag conversion:
| formatter-tags must have identical names as tags they are going to convert. |
| unformatted content will be shown for content-tags that have no formatter-tag defined |
B) transformation of attributes
The following token may be used to display value of attributes you defined for xml-tags in database table file
{mpf:attrib/[attribute-name]}
| "mpf:attrib"-token may be used within "open" and "close"-tags |
| attribute-token has temporary character |
| conditions or other parameters are not supported |
Examples
transform an XML-file using MPFT
{mpf:xml=E:/test.xml||xsl=E:/taglib.xml}
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