Re: [xsl] reading a .xsv file in xslt

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3 February 2010 04:11, ac <ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrew, your code is fine but it seems that, to read lines, the line
>       <xsl:variable name="lines" select="tokenize($csv, ' ')"
> as="xs:string+" />
> should be more like
>       <xsl:variable name="lines" select="tokenize($csv, '\r?\n')"
> as="xs:string+" />
> as there could be spaces in the cells, and as the end-of-line would not be
> recognized anyway.
> What do you think?

That's from it being displayed as html (which i should probably
fix)... if you use the download link to get the file instead then you
can see that it tokenizes on a carriage return:

<xsl:variable name="lines" select="tokenize($csv, '&#xa;')" as="xs:string+"/>



> Also, but purely as a matter of taste and case, since all cell values are
> strings, I would tend to use attributes, replacing
>       <elem name="{.}">
>       <xsl:value-of select="$lineItems[$pos]" />
>       </elem>
> with
>        <xsl:attribute name="{.}" select="$lineItems[$pos]"/>

See below.....

> Finally, one may also have to handle the case of csv files that do not have
> an initial header line with all valid QName strings.

It can - that's why the name is stored as a name attribute on a
general <elem> element, so that they dont have to be QNames.

> I get a lot of csv files (e.g. from the bank) where the first line is a
> blank line

Use normalize-space on the entire csv text (the string returned from
unparsed-text) then use it again on the column names.


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