Subject: Re: [xsl] Converting XML to Fixed Length Text Data From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:28:28 GMT |
David thanks for the response, but I am not quite clear on the solution. 1) How does the attribute "att1" vs the element "child1" know where to position themselves on the output file? Shouldn't positional info be declared somewhere? it is "declared" by the length of the string variable declared for each field. If $child2 starts off as a string of 20 spaces and you do <xsl:value-of select="."/> <xsl:value-of select="substring($child2,string-length(.))"/> in the template for child2, then you will get the character data of the element followed by enough spaces to pad the total to 20 characters (as long as the element had less than 20 characters) 2) What about the element <xsl:text>, is this not required? xsl:text is in favt never required, but here you don't need it as you are not adding any literal text, only some spaces, which you can enter with xsl:value-of. So apart from the template I showed, you just need the settings of the original strings to give the widths of each field, plus the template for teh parent element needs to give a line break after each row, which you can do with xsl:text (<xsl:text> </xsl:text>) or value-of (<xsl:value-of select="' '"/>) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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