Smooks and Freemarker

[ericcart]

I'm testing Smooks and Freemarker. I can't figure out how to process a simple xml.

For example:


Dalian, China (ZYTL) 38-54N 121-38E 97M
Oct 25, 2007 - 10:00 AM EDT / 2007.10.25 1400 UTC
from the W (280 degrees) at 4 MPH (4 KT) (direction variable):0
less than 1 mile:0
obscured
55 F (13 C)
55 F (13 C)
100%
30.15 in. Hg (1021 hPa)
Success



With this FTL transformation:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.0.xsd">

<resource-config selector="CurrentWeather">

<![CDATA[${Temperature}]]>

replace
</resource-config>

</smooks-resource-list>


PLEASE....HELP...... I'm crazy with this thing !!!!

PD: I already tested with XSL and works fine with:
<resource-config selector="CurrentWeather">

<![CDATA[<xsl:value-of select="./Temperature" />]]>

true
</resource-config>

[ericcart]

Ups, this is the example xml:

<CurrentWeather>
 <Location>Dalian, China (ZYTL) 38-54N 121-38E 97M</Location>
 <Time>Oct 25, 2007 - 10:00 AM EDT / 2007.10.25 1400 UTC</Time>
 <Wind> from the W (280 degrees) at 4 MPH (4 KT) (direction variable):0</Wind>
 <Visibility> less than 1 mile:0</Visibility>
 <SkyConditions> obscured</SkyConditions>
 <Temperature> 55 F (13 C)</Temperature>
 <DewPoint> 55 F (13 C)</DewPoint>
 <RelativeHumidity> 100%</RelativeHumidity>
 <Pressure> 30.15 in. Hg (1021 hPa)</Pressure>
 <Status>Success</Status>
</CurrentWeather>

[ericcart]

Again:

XSL - WORKING OK

<resource-config selector="CurrentWeather">
 <resource type="xsl">
 <![CDATA[<FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><xsl:value-of select="./Temperature" /></FONT></FONT>]]>
 </resource>
 <param name="is-xslt-templatelet">true</param>
 </resource-config>

FLT - NOT WORKING

<resource-config selector="CurrentWeather">
 <resource type="ftl">
<![CDATA[<FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif"><FONT COLOR="#000000">${Temperature}</FONT></FONT>]]>
 </resource>
 <param name="action">replace</param>
 </resource-config

Thanks,
Eric

[tfennelly]

Have you tried this sample on the Smooks website... download it and run it.

[ericcart]

I reviewed it. I don't have an object model to populate.

I'm receving a XML and transforming it to a text.

It's related with:

freemarker - Part III. XML Processing Guide
http://freemarker.org/docs/xgui.html

freemarker - Putting the XML into the data model
http://freemarker.org/docs/xgui_expose_put.html

/* Create a data model */
Map root = new HashMap();
root.put(
 "doc",
 freemarker.ext.dom.NodeModel.parse(new File("the/path/of/the.xml")));

But the XML comes from ESB, loaded by org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.converters.SmooksTransformer

So... where is the absolute reference to the data ? It seems selector is working, but not the variable Temperature reference.


Thank,
Eric

[tfennelly]

OK, Smooks doesn't support this usage model at the moment... it only supports the normal java model based approach. See FreeMarkerContentDeliveryUnitCreator for details on how FreeMarker is integrated.

Smooks will (at some stage) have support for "virtual models", which means you won't actually require a physical java object model.

[ericcart]

Ok, I'll open a JIRA feature request.

In the meantime, I'll manage to use XSL transformation.

Thanks for you answer,
Eric