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Originally Posted by dgatwood
If you are familiar with pretty much any programming language, you might find it easier to use a tree-based (DOM) XML parser, then walk the DOM tree and manipulate it in one or more passes, and write the result out to disk. It's pretty much just like manipulating HTML elements with JavaScript code, if you've ever done that.
If you don't know any programming languages, then XSLT is probably the better of those two choices. Then again, PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby are all relatively easy to learn (with PHP being probably the most straightforward in terms of having a fairly lightweight and consistent syntax), so maybe it's time to pick up a new hobby.  |
Sorry, I had walked away from the post, so I didn't see your reply right away. I don't want to be too much of a bother, but I may prefer that option (or at least try and float it) since we could write it in house rather than creating an XSLT. Would you mind elaborating a bit on the first option? I'm good with JavaScript and using the DOM, but I promise not to do this myself. I will leave the programming to the programmers, but I would at least like to understand it better so as to be as helpful as possible. (and maybe try it myself over lunch)
Thanks so much for your help.