[Biojava-l] Blast XML + XSL = HTML

[Mark Schreiber]

Hi Richard / Dmitry

A good home for this might be the biojava cookbook on the biojava wiki (
www.biojava.org). Although it isn't strictly biojava people may find it a
useful example.

- Mark

On 7/23/07, Richard Holland <holland at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hi Dmitry.
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> Thanks for your efforts and offer to contribute your code to the BioJava
> project.
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> You say that the existing Blast2HTMLHanlder handler is inflexible, which
> is true enough. However I don't see how substituting the handler for an
> XSL stylesheet would make it any more flexible - the user would still
> have to live with an HTML format specified by the designer of the
> stylesheet unless the wrapping code that calls the stylesheet could
> somehow dynamically modify the XML based on method calls.
>
> I'm also unsure as to whether the whole transformation is appropriate
> for BioJava (the Blast2HTMLHandler itself is on borderline territory -
> saved only by the fact that it creates the reports based on SAX events
> that can potentially come from non-BlastXML sources). BioJava is a Java
> toolkit, and the transformation from XML to HTML via an XSL stylesheet
> doesn't require Java at all.
>
> Mark - if you're reading this - guidance, please?
>
> cheers,
> Richard
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> Dmitry Repchevsky wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I used biojava Blast2HTMLHandler, but found it unflexible and slow (?).
> > Finally I made an xsl stylesheet  to convert blast output into html
> > <div> element.
> > Also I have a class BlastXML2HTML to make the transform , it's pretty
> > simple.
> > May I contribute it?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Dmitry
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