applying stylesheets

small focused how-to

For a project with some xml-content, I put together a little demo of using python to transform a source xml file containing a dummy list of fifteen test-entries (three people with five entries each) like this...

[snip]
<TestEntries>
    <!-- Entries for Person 1 -->
    <Entry>
        <PersonName>Person 1</PersonName>
        <Date>2023-01-01</Date>
        <TestScore>85</TestScore>
    </Entry>
    <Entry>
        <PersonName>Person 1</PersonName>
        <Date>2023-01-15</Date>
        <TestScore>88</TestScore>
    </Entry>
[snip]

-- into a nice summarization (with test-scores averaged), like this...

<scores>
 <Person>
   <Name>Person 1</Name>
   <average>83.8</average>
 </Person>
 <Person>
   <Name>Person 2</Name>
   <average>87.0</average>
 </Person>
 <Person>
   <Name>Person 3</Name>
   <average>84.0</average>
 </Person>
</scores>

...by applying a stylesheet.

recipe thought

It'd be useful over time to build out a list of recipes for either good-practices or for small focused how-tos. GitHub's ability to link to a line or lines means that an index of recipes could reference small parts of existing projects -- or small focused repos such as this.