Ben's Blog » Freemarker http://www.benh.co.uk Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:39:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Example alf:parseXMLDocuments using XSL and Freemarker http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/example-alfparsexmldocuments-using-xsl-and-freemarker/ http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/example-alfparsexmldocuments-using-xsl-and-freemarker/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:54:51 +0000 admin http://www.benh.co.uk/?p=83 Here is a very simple example of using alf:parseXMLDocuments with both XSL and Freemarker. This example will effectivley load all XML output files from the root dir of type ‘blog-article’ and complie them into an output rendition.

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Web Form – blog-article.xsd

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:pr="http://www.alfresco.org/alfresco/pr"
targetNamespace="http://www.alfresco.org/alfresco/pr"
elementFormDefault="qualified">

<!-- Blog Article categories -->
<xs:simpleType name="category">
<xs:restriction base="xs:normalizedString">
<xs:enumeration value="Product"/>
<xs:enumeration value="Web 2.0"/>
<xs:enumeration value="Internet"/>
<xs:enumeration value="Event"/>
<xs:enumeration value="Training"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>

<!-- Blog Article fields -->
<xs:element name="blog_article">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="title" type="xs:normalizedString"/>
<xs:element name="abstract" type="xs:normalizedString"/>
<xs:element name="body" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element name="keywords" type="xs:normalizedString" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element name="category" type="pr:category" default="Internet"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>

XSL Example – blog-article.xsl


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:pr="http://www.alfresco.org/alfresco/pr">

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="all_press_releases" select="alf:parseXMLDocuments('blog-article', '')"/>

<xsl:for-each select="$all_press_releases">
<h2><xsl:value-of select="pr:title"/></h2>
<h3><xsl:value-of select="pr:abstract"/></h3>
<p><xsl:value-of select="pr:abstract"/></p>
<br />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Freemarker Example – blog-article.html.ftl

<#ftl ns_prefixes={"D":"http://www.alfresco.org/alfresco/pr", "pr":"http://www.alfresco.org/alfresco/pr"}>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

</head>
<body>

<#assign docs = alf.parseXMLDocuments('blog-article', '/')>
<#list docs as x>
<h2><a href="#">${x.title}</a></h2>
<h3>${x.abstract}</h3>
<p>${x.body}</p>
<br />
</#list>

</body>
</html>

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