running executable from xml code

Re: running executable from xml code

doneirik schreef:XML is a dataformat not a executable language....
So no this is not possible.

Re: running executable from xml code

Working on a plugin in Jira, I have an example opening a link usingThat's a matter of how you configure and/or script the tool that's
manipulating the XML.

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Re: running executable from xml code

doneirik wrote:You can't get XML itself to cause something to execute because XML is a
markup language, not a programming language.

You may be able to get your XML processor to perform this task, though,
based on finding something in your XML markup to trigger it.
Your problem is that that has no meaning. Something or someone has
deliberately crippled the data by representing the HTML markup as
character data, and deliberately broken what remains by omitting the
quotes around attribute values, so it is not reliably accessible to an
XML processor.

It ought to read:

<resource type="velocity" name="view">
<img src="$req.conte xtPath/images/icons/bullet_creme.gi f" height="8"
width="8" border="0" align="absmiddl e">
<b><a
href="$req.cont extPath/secure/ConfigureReport .jspa?selectedP rojectId=${issu e.getProject(). getString('id') }&amp;reportKey =com.atlassian. jira.plugin.rep ort.example.dhr _report%3Adhr_r eport">DHR</a></b>
DHR Report
</resource>

Now at least your XML processor can gain control over the markup and
decide what to replace with what in order to generate the output you need.

"Get the data model right to start with, and everything else pretty much
falls into place. Get it wrong to start with, and the project is hosed
before you begin." I forget who said that.

The easiest way to make it run an external binary is to write a stub
that performs that task, and add it to the repertoire of functions for
whatever your processing language is.

Depending on what you want it to do (embed the pdflatex output as an
image?) you could play dirty tricks if the output is going to be used in
a browser: transform the anchor element into an img element whose src
attribute is actually the URI of a little server script you write to run
pdflatex on whatever it is needs doing and return the result with the
correct MIME Content-Type.

///Peter
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Re: running executable from xml code

Peter Flynn wrote:Actually, XML isn't even that -- XML is a markup *syntax* which is used
as a basis for application-specific languages.

There are programming languages based on XML -- XSLT is one example --
but that's a particular use of XML and you need to run them through a
tool that actually understands them as programs before they do anything.

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Re: running executable from xml code

Peter Flynn wrote:
href="$req.cont extPath/secure/ConfigureReport .jspa?selectedP rojectId=${issu e.getProject(). getString('id') }&amp;reportKey =com.atlassian. jira.plugin.rep ort.example.dhr _report%3Adhr_r eport">DHR</a></b>Except that that:

(a) Isn't well formed (there is no end tag for the img element, b element or
a element.

and

(b) If you want to include HTML markup in some XML language then why not use
XHTML and properly namespace it?

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Re: running executable from xml code

Tjerk Wolterink wrote:the datas that you write in XML can be a program, that you can execute

Look at XSLT or Jelly

I designed and implemented a framework that allow you to run XML tags in
batch or in web applications, and to design your own tag library either
by mapping your tags to a java class or to describe them with other tags
(like a macro)

Moreover, it is also possible to design runnable declarative libraries,
and if you are smart enough, you will be able to mix imperative
constructs with declarative sentences




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Re: running executable from xml code

David Dorward wrote:Quite right, my fault for doing it late at night.
Actually there is, if you scroll right far enough :-)
True, but I thought the user had enough to be going on with :-)

///Peter