Re: [xsl] Transformation problems with CR-LF

["Vishwajit Pantvaidya" <pantvaidya@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Joe for your reply. I had been testing related to this issue some 
time back but could not reply immediately.

The source xml string that I was trying to transform was of the type 
(exactly as is, including newlines)

<!DOCTYPE ABC [
...
]><ABC>
...
<attr>
value</attr>

In other words, the nature of placement of newline was probably resulting in 
it getting included in the value of the element (e.g attr above). Would such 
newlines yield the empty output xml I was getting? I tried using xsl-strip 
space but that did not help. Finally, I had to write get the newlines 
removed from the source xml and then I started getting output xml correctly. 
To verify that those newlines were the cause of the problem, I also did some 
backtracking from a working source xml string. I did find that the moment I 
put newlines at these positions (within an element value), I started getting 
empty output.

Our xsl is like

<?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:template mode = "Attribs" match = "ctrInfo">
	      <xsl:element name="ADDR">
		<xsl:value-of select="attribute/atomicValue[../name='ADDR']"/>
	      </xsl:element>
...


Any suggestions?


- Vishwajit.




> From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Transformation problems with CR-LF
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:31:10 -0500
>
> >I am using xalan for xml to xml transformation. Input xml string has some
>
> >DOS carriage return and/or line feeds introduced by the source
> application,
>
> Xalan -- and any other compliant XML processor -- will normalize line
> breaks of any sort to an XML "newline" before processing them. An XSLT
> stylesheet will process newline as text, unless you explicitly tell it
> otherwise. There's some good advice in Michael Kay's book on how to
> suppress undesired whitespace; I presume the FAQs for this list have
> equivalent advice...
>
> ______________________________________
> Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research
>
>
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