Re: [xsl] How does one convert an RTF to a string?

[Kenneth Stephen <marvin.the.cynical.robot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

    A search in the FAQ and elsewhere didnt turn up what I was looking
for. So here is my first pass :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
        xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan";
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>



        <xsl:template match="/">

                <xsl:variable name="rtf">
                                <node>
                                        <!-- Here is a comment -->

                                        <child attrib="something"
>value</child>
                                </node>
                </xsl:variable>

                <xsl:variable name="tmpStr">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="xalan:nodeset($rtf)"
mode="convert" />
                </xsl:variable>
                <xsl:value-of select="$tmpStr" disable-output-escaping="yes"
/>

        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="*" mode="convert">
                <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="name(.)" /><xsl:text />
                <xsl:for-each select="@*">
                        <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="name(.)" />="<xsl:value-of select="." />"<xsl:text />
                </xsl:for-each>
                <xsl:choose>
                        <xsl:when test="count(node()) = 0">
                                <xsl:text>/&gt;</xsl:text>
                        </xsl:when>
                        <xsl:otherwise>
                                <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
                                <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"
mode="convert" />

<xsl:text>&lt;/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="name(.)"
/>&gt;<xsl:text />
                        </xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="text()" mode="convert">
                <xsl:text/><xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:text />
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="comment()" mode="convert">
                <xsl:comment><xsl:value-of select="." /></xsl:comment>
        </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

    Unfortunately, this produces the output :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<node><child attrib="something">value</child></node>

    Why am I not getting the whitepsaces in my RTF or the comments?

Thanks,
Kenneth

On 6/9/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     How can I do this? Will I have to write an XML serializer in XSL
>     or is there an easier way?
>
> Yes, if you generate a node tree in the RTF then you'll have to use
> x:node-set() to get the nodes back and then use templates or an
> extesnion function to serialise the tree as a string. There are several
> existing templates to do this in the faq or in the archives of this list.