/** You may copy this example and use it for any purpose, commercial or otherwise. */

import com.ricebridge.xmlman.XmlManager;
import com.ricebridge.xmlman.RecordSpec;
import com.ricebridge.xmlman.XmlSpec;

import java.util.List;


/** This is a very simple example that shows you how to load and
 *  save XML data using XML Manager. The data to load is taken from 
 *  the file "products.xml", in the same folder as this Java source 
 *  file. The saved data is written to a new file called "table.htm",
 *  also in the same folder.
 *
 *  To compile and run this program, you will need to include xmlman.jar
 *  (in the lib folder of the XML Manager distribution) in your CLASSPATH. 
 */
public class HtmlTable {

  public static void main( String[] args ) {

    // To use XML Manager, start by creating a new XmlManager object.
    XmlManager xmlman = new XmlManager();

    // Then you need a RecordSpec object.
    // This tells XML Manager what data to extract from the XML file
    RecordSpec inputrs = new RecordSpec( "/shop/product", 
                                        new String[] {"@code","name","price"} );

    // And now load the data.
    List data = xmlman.load( "products.xml", inputrs );
    
    // The data we just loaded is available as a List of String[] arrays.
    // We can loop through it manually to access it, but we can also
    // use XML Manager to output the data in a different format.

    // Get the XmlSpec object to change the output settings
    XmlSpec xmlspec = xmlman.getXmlSpec();
    xmlspec.setHeader("<table><tr><th>Code</th><th>Name</th><th>Price</th><tr>\n");
    xmlspec.setFooter("</table>");

    // Create an output RecordSpec telling XML Manager how to create the XML document
    RecordSpec outputrs = new RecordSpec("tr", new String[] { "td[1]", "td[2]", "td[3]" } );

    // And save the data to a new file.
    xmlman.save( "table.htm", outputrs, data );
  }
}