IBM Version 5 manual Preparing the Html file for generation, Adding annotation tags

Figure 7-9 Customer.html

7.6.1 Preparing the HTML file for generation

There are several steps to get the HTML file ready to generate XSL and XML file. The first step is to rename customer.html to customero.xhtml, since the generator is only available to files with this extension.

Open the renamed file and follow the next steps:

1.Delete any DOCTYPE declaration.

2.Remove any entity references. For example, substitute &nbsol with a blank.

3.Fix up any missing tags. For example, change <br> to </br>.

Adding annotation tags

The second step is to create a template file that contains the annotation tags, to mark the section that contains data that needs to be extracted into the XML document. To do this follow the next steps:

1.Copy customer.xhtml into a new file, for example, cus-template.xhtml.

2.Open cus_template.xhtml file and add the tag <?HTMLTemplate version=”0.1”?> at the top to indicate that it is a template file.

3.Add the tag <TemplateRegion name=”nodeName”> around the data that you want to convert.The nodeName name will be the node name in the resulting XML file.

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