Re: [xsl] concating strings in a loop

[Herwig Posedu <herwig.posedu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Welch wrote:

> > hi!
> > i want to display a list of persons "comma-seperarted" on my 
> > pdf-file. how can i concate those person-names seperated with 
> > a "," but in that 
> > way, that after the last name is no ",".
> > i did it like this
> >
> > <xsl:for-each select="person">
> > <xsl:value-of select="name" />
> > ,<fo:inline color="white">.</fo:inline>
> > </xsl:for-each>
> > -> the output for example is: mike, john,
> > -> i want to have: mike, john
> > how can i concate the strings and substring it, so that the 
> > last comma 
> > will be removed
> >    
>
> If your date looks like this:
>
> <person>
>  <name>mike</name>
> </person>
> <person>
>  <name>john</name>
> </person>
>
> The instruction <xsl:for-each select="person"> will select a list of 2
> nodes to process.  The function position() will give you the position of
> the node you are currently processing in the list, and last() will give
> you the position of node that's last in the list.  So, you only want to
> output a comma if the position of the node you are processing is not the
> last one:
>
> <xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if>
>
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
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>
>  
thank u - it works perfectly :)

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