[kepler-users] XSLT Actor xml input

[Chris Weed]

That sounds like what I need. I'll give it a try.
Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Dan Crawl seems to have checked in some fixes to the Kepler XSLT actor
> that allow it to accept XMLToken as input and no longer writes the
> temp files to disk.  Does this meet your needs, Chris?  For now you
> can only access these changes from the development build, but it will
> be released with the next Kepler release.
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Christopher Brooks
> <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> I'm assuming that the XSLTActor to which you refer is
>> kepler/util/src/org/sdm/spa/XSLTActor.java
>>
>> Ptolemy has some XSLT actors, see
>> ptII/ptolemy/actor/lib/xslt/XSLTransformer.java
>> That directory also has XMLInclusion.java and some demos.
>>
>> The Ptolemy II devel tree has ptolemy.actor.lib.convert.StringToXML
>>
>> If you have an XMLToken input, then to convert it to a String, create an
>> Expression actor with an input port and an expression:
>>  input.toString()
>>
>> There could be a XMLToString actor, but the above should work.
>>
>> The spa XSLTActor should probably be rewritten to use XMLToken.
>> For backward compatibility, we would probably need two versions,
>> one that used String and one that used XMLToken.
>>
>> _Christopher
>>
>> Chris Weed wrote:
>>>
>>> The XSLT Actor accepts XML on it's input port, but does not use a
>>> XMLToken.
>>> Several sample work-flows seem to pass it a StringToken,
>>> which does not seem intuitive when I connect my actor that outputs an
>>> XMLToken.
>>>
>>> Additionally, I don't see an actor that would bridge this gap of turning
>>> a XMLToken into a StringToken for actors that accept XML, but as a
>>> StringToken.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something? Is this a bug?
>>>
>>> Chris
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