[Download-List] HTML - bold

Fri Feb 6 12:47:44 EST 2004

Thanks, Wendy.
Since I'm no better versed in HTML than XML/XSLT, I might at as well learn
the *easiest/best* way to start with.

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:Wendy.Smoak at asu.edu] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:07 AM
To: download-list at cedarville.edu
Subject: RE: [Download-List] HTML - bold

Wendy Smoak wrote:
> I would suggest using the XML format, and applying an XSL
> stylesheet to
> it after the fact to transform it into HTML.  Embedding markup in the
> HTML is, as you already found out, going to get ugly.
> Here's an example:
> http://members.cox.net/opensourceaz/xml/example.html

Well, apparently I'm not quite awake.  I meant that embedding markup
(HTML) in the *DOWNLOAD* command is going to get ugly.

If you do XML/XSLT, you'd probably define the column headings in the XSLT.

There's a much simpler solution, and that's to use <th> tags for the first
row of the table and use a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).  (Most browsers
already render <th> as bold.)  Unfortunately, it looks like DOWNLOAD doesn't
produce <th>'s.

Dave, would that be a difficult change?  I'm working with this example:

PA
SELECT PERSON SAMPLE 2
DOWNLOAD PERSON \
  FORMAT HTML \
  HEADING \
  LITERAL "ID" \
  LITERAL "Name" \
 DETAIL \
  @ID \
  PERSON.NAME 

And I'm getting this:

<HTML>
<HEADING>
<TITLE>

</TITLE>
</HEADING>
<BODY>
<TABLE BORDER="1">
<TR><TD><B>ID</B></TD><TD><B>Name</B></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD>0080804</TD><TD>Mrs. Amy Smith</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD>0161490</TD><TD>Ms. Jane Brown</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

I think that the first row, specified by 'HEADING' should come out as <th>
tags.

On a different topic, I've never seen a <HEADING> tag in HTML.  I think
that's supposed to be <HEAD> just beneath the <HTML> tag.

-- 
Wendy Smoak
Application Systems Analyst, Sr.
ASU IA Information Resources Management 
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