Re: [xsl] Is there a way to avoid Empty Values?

[George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You can serialize the XML in the way you want, for instance you can 
parse it again and serialize empty elements with start and end tags.

In XSLT 2.0 you can use a trick to achieve that. For instance if you 
know that a character, let's say # does not appear in the output then 
you can use a character map to map it to nothing and generate # in every 
element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
  <xsl:character-map name="test">
    <xsl:output-character character="#" string=""/>
  </xsl:character-map>
  <xsl:output use-character-maps="test"/>
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:element name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
      <xsl:text>#</xsl:text>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Best Regards,
George
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binu.idicula@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>   I have a translator which just copies the values of nodes and subnodes
> of a selected tree. 
>
>   <xsl:template match="*">
>        <xsl:element name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
>           <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>           <xsl:apply-templates/>
>        </xsl:element>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> Input
> -----------------
> <Name>X</Name>
> <Age></Age>
>
> Output
> ------------------
> <Name>X</Name>
> <Age/>
>
> Is there a way to preserve the empty values, because the output is used
> by a Plain Parser Application which looks for <Age> and </Age> for
> looking value of Age. This legacy application is not open for editing. 
>
>
> regards
> Binu Kuttikkattu Idicula
>
>
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