Re: [xsl] Translating the new lines to line breaks with HTML

At 2011-12-09 15:02 +0000, Soyer, Muhammed A. wrote:

I am using XSLT 1.0 and using is not an option at this time.

I'm assuming you mean not using XSLT 2.0.

I have XML data as below and I need to transform to HTML. I want to insert line breaks for the DATES field for the new lines while transforming. I tried to use translate but it only replaces one character with another character.

I am very new to XSL, any suggestion would be great..

You need a recursive call that walks through the text node looking for newlines at the end of each line. XML processing normalizes end-of-line sequences to be a newline on all platforms. The recursive call keeps calling itself until all the newlines are processed.

I hope the example below helps. I would note that very rarely will you ever need to address text() nodes directly (there is a recent thread on this), and when using select using "./*" is no different than using "*".

. . . . . . . Ken

T:\ftemp>type soyer.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ROWSET>
 <ROW>
  <SEASON_CODE>HIGH</SEASON_CODE>
  <SEASON_DESC>High Season</SEASON_DESC>
  <DATES>Thu 2005-09-01 - Wed 2005-11-30
Fri 2006-09-01 - Sun 2006-12-03
Tue 2011-11-01 - Sat 2011-12-17</DATES>
 </ROW>
</ROWSET>

T:\ftemp>xslt soyer.xml soyer.xsl <html> <body> <table border="1"> <tr bgcolor="cyan"> <th>SEASON_CODE</th> <th>SEASON_DESC</th> <th>DATES</th> </tr> <tr> <td>HIGH</td> <td>High Season</td> <td>Thu 2005-09-01 - Wed 2005-11-30<br>Fri 2006-09-01 - Sun 2006-12- 03<br>Tue 2011-11-01 - Sat 2011-12-17 </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> T:\ftemp>type soyer.xsl <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <table border="1"> <tr bgcolor="cyan"> <xsl:for-each select="/ROWSET/ROW[1]/*"> <th><xsl:value-of select="name()"/></th> </xsl:for-each> </tr> <xsl:for-each select="/ROWSET/*"> <tr> <xsl:for-each select="./*"> <td> <xsl:call-template name="split-text"> <xsl:with-param name="text" select="."/> </xsl:call-template> </td> </xsl:for-each> </tr> </xsl:for-each> </table> </body> </html> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="split-text">
  <xsl:param name="text"/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="contains($text,'&#xa;')">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,'&#xa;')"/>
      <br/>
      <xsl:call-template name="split-text">
        <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,'&#xa;')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>

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