Re: [xsl] Getting a list of node Text()

[Nicholas Orr <nick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/06/2007, at 6:40 PM, Andrew Welch wrote:

> On 6/20/07, Nicholas Orr <nick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I did know about normalize, but it doesn't suit this particular
> > situation, as I want to keep all of the spaces and returns within the
> > text block consistent, but remove anything that the XML output format
> > has added.  Essentially, I want to only grab the explicit data within
> > the CDATA section :
> >
> >                                 <Calculation>
> >                                         <![CDATA[Table 1::Number1  
> > & Custom 1 & External ( "Menu-
> > Version"; "" ) & <Function Missing>]]>
> >                                 </Calculation>
>
> You should really fix your XML at source - the whitespace surrounding
> the CDATA section is considered significant, so really you want:
>
> <Calculation><![CDATA[Table 1.....on Missing>]]></Calculation>
>
> It looks as though your XML has been indented/pretty printed -
> whatever did that shouldn't really have put the cdata section on a new
> line.
>
> I would say the correct solution would be to fix whatever wrote the
> XML to disk, rather than patching it up at the transform stage.

Yes, I agree.  The source I have no control over, other than to  
submit error reports and hope for the best.  It's coming out of an  
app where I don't control the output.

But having investigated this I came to the same conclusion, and I'll  
submit some reports about it and see what happens.

Cheers,
Nick