Re: [xsl] Converting XML to Fixed Length Text Data

["Garvin Franco" <garvin_franco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
2) What about the element <xsl:text>, is this not required?

See below for original message and your response.

Garvin

Your response:
> From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Converting XML to Fixed Length Text Data
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:45:23 GMT
>
> <xsl:variable name="pad1" select="'       '"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="child1">
>  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>  <xsl:value-of select="substring($child1,string-length(.))"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> and similarly the other children. (This doesn't do any error checking
> for over-run, although that could be added.)
>
> David


Original Message:
Ladies and Gents, I need some guidance .  I searched the archives and found
some info but it was not sufficient. Basically I want to convert an xml file
to a fixed length data file.  The following is a sample of what I am trying
to do

Position of data for output file:
field: child1     start 1    length 7
field: att1       start 12   length 5
field: child2     start 27   length 12
field: child3     start 39   length 15
field: att2       start 56   length 3

Input:
<parent att1="foo">
<child1>aChild</child1>
<child2>anotherChild</child2>
<child3 att2="bar">yetAnotherChild</child3>
</parent>

Output:
aChild     foo            anotherChildyetAnotherChild  bar

I would really appreciate any help on this.

Thanks
Garvin Franco
garvin_franco@xxxxxxxxxxx



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