Re: [xsl] Escaping newlines in an XSL file

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

More typing, less readability your way.

Cheers,

Tom P

[Andrew Welch]

Ahh the joys of whitespace.  Here why not use <xsl:text>?

<xsl:template match="/RECORD">
  <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"/><xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_2"/><xsl:text>,...</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
</xsl:template>

This should give you control over what appears in your output

cheers
andrew



>Here's how I usually do it.  Not quite as readable as you would like,
but
>fairly good.
>
><xsl:template match="/RECORD">
> <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"
>  />,<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_2"
> />,...<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tom P
>
>[ROBERTS Jeff]
>
> > I have the following problem:
> >
> > I have a Document tree that represents a single data record
containing
> > multiple fields. I would like to convert this into a comma delimited
text
> > string using XSL.
> >
> > My current approach is to use the following XSL:
> >
> >  <xsl:template match="/RECORD">
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"/>,<xsl:value-of
> > select="child::ELEMENT_2"/>,...<xsl:value-of
select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
> >  </xsl:template>
> >
> > Where RECORD is actually the root of the tree - there is only 1
record
per
> > tree.
> >
> > My problem is that if I break up the second line in the above code
so
that
> > there is one element per line  (for readability)
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"/>,
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_2"/>,
> >    ...
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
> >
> > Then XSL will output the newlines found after each comma to the
resulting
> > file.
> >
> > Does anyone know a way I can break up the line above without having
XSL
> > treat the New Lines as significant ?
> >
> > Perhaps I am walking down the wrong path with this. Unfortunately I
have
> > no experience with XSL. The only thing I need it for is to do this
one
> > simple transformation, but I'm finding the learning curve a little
steep
> > at the beginning.
> >
> > Would *greatly* appreciate any help on this one!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jeff Roberts
> > Toronto
> >
> >
> >
>
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