Question

I am starting to work on a project where I receive data in XML, which has to be translated into a text file that represents python to be executed.

I came across this:

XML To Text

and wonder what XSLT experts think about it. Any feedback would be very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Producing a python script via XSLT is entirely possible.

text is one of the choices for the method (i.e. format) in xsl:output

You use it in your stylesheet like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>   

   <xsl:template match="/">
       <xsl:text>#!/usr/bin/env python&#xA;</xsl:text>
       <xsl:text># This program is a "Hello World" example&#xA;</xsl:text>
       <xsl:text>print 'Hello world!'</xsl:text>
   </xsl:template> 
</xsl:stylesheet>

The above stylesheet produces the following Python script

#!/usr/bin/env python
# This program is a "Hello World" example
print 'Hello world!'