RE: [xsl] Newline problems

["Vishwajit Pantvaidya" <pantvaidya@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Newline problems
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 13:32:50 -0500
>
> > I made changes to apply normalize-space to text nodes as
> > suggested but
> > output again has no data. Do you see any obvious mistakes?
> > Simplified src
> > xml and xsl are as shown below:
> > ----------------------------------------------XML------------------
> > <!DOCTYPE ABC [
> > ...
> > ]><ABC>
> > ...
> > <info>
> > <attr>
> > <name>
> > ponumber</name>
> > <atomicValue>
> > 12345</atomicValue>
> > </attr>
> > ...
> > </info>
> > ...
> > </ABC>
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------XSL------------------
> >
> > <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
> > <xsl:transform xmlns:xsl =
> > "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version =
> > "1.0">
> >   <xsl:template match = "ABC">
> >     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;!DOCTYPE
> > OrderProcessing&gt;</xsl:text>
> >     <xsl:element name = "Order">
> >       <xsl:element name ="Info">
> >         <xsl:apply-templates mode = "Attribs" select = "/ABC/info"/>
> >       </xsl:element>
> >     </xsl:element>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >   ...
> >   <xsl:template mode = "Attribs" match = "info">
> >     <xsl:apply-templates mode = "stripNewline" select="text()"/>
> >     <xsl:element name = "PO_NUMBER">
> >       <xsl:value-of select="attr/atomicValue[../name='ponumber']"/>
> >     </xsl:element>
> >   ...
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> >   <xsl:template mode = "stripNewline" match="text()">
> >     <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >   ...
> > </xsl:transform>
>
> Vishwajit, it sounds like you are expecting the stripNewline template
> to modify the source document, actually removing the newlines from
> it so that the following xsl:value-of will be able to recognize the
> node you're looking for.  That approach will not work, because in XSL
> you're not able to modify the source document.  (That would be a side-
> effect, which you're not supposed to be able to do.)
>
> I believe what you want to do here is
>
>   <xsl:template mode = "Attribs" match = "info">
>     <xsl:element name = "PO_NUMBER">
>       <xsl:value-of 
> select="attr/atomicValue[normalize-space(../name)='ponumber']"/>
>     </xsl:element>
>   ...
>   </xsl:template>
>
> Lars

Wouldn't that require me to put normalize-space calls all over my xsl, since 
most of the input xml values has newlines? I was just trying to follow the 
suggestions made by Mike Brown, Michael Kay and others of using templates to 
avoid this.



Vish.

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