[Qgis-community-team] Re: [Qgis-developer] XSL transformation for Qgis repo XML files

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Very nice! Maybe this could be added to the QGIS official repo Gary?
And maybe we could get the community folks to set the style sheet to
match the qgis.org look and feel?

Heres hoping there are a lot more rainy sundays your side of the world :-)

Regards

Tim

2008/6/22 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:
>  I was having some trouble installing a plugin from the installer, so I
> figured I'd download the source zip file. So I got the repo XML file,
> found the plugin, cut n pasted the URL into my browser, downloaded and
> there it was.
>
>  Which was a bit of a faff really  :)
>
>  So I figured with a bit of XSL and CSS magic I could make the XML repo
> files display nicely in Firefox and other browsers (what?!, there's
> other browsers???).
>
>  First, repo managers need to make sure their xml files have a proper
> XML header and an xml-stylesheet tag. This doesn't affect the way QGIS
> parses the file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="plugins.xsl" ?>
>
>  That's all you need to do to the .xml file.
>
>  Then put a plugins.xsl file where that href will find it. Put it
> anywhere but make sure the href in the stylesheet tag points to it.
>
>  I've attached a plugins.xsl that I wrote. It just shows each plugin in
> a nice box with a link to the file and the homepage. Here's how my
> rather scanty repo looks with it:
>
> http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Qgis/Plugins/plugins.xml
>
>  You can also download the plugins.xsl from there if the attachment
> fails to get through the mailing list. Feel free to customise the
> plugins.xsl to express your personality.
>
>  One thing I'd like to see is some attributes for the <plugins> tag, to
> specify the repository perhaps, so I could do: <plugins repo="Barry's
> Plugins">. Might be useful for presentation purposes and including in
> the plugin loader.
>
>  Feel free to use this technique or not - I'm just filling in time
> between household chores on a rainy Sunday. Or finding excuses to avoid
> said chores...
>
> Barry
>
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