Re: [xsl] concating strings in a loop

[Peter Flynn <pflynn@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 10:02, Herwig Posedu wrote:
> hi!
> i want to display a list of persons "comma-seperarted" on my pdf-file.
> how can i concate those person-names seperated with a "," but in that 
> way, that after the last name is no ",".
> i did it like this
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="person">
> <xsl:value-of select="name" />
> ,<fo:inline color="white">.</fo:inline>
> </xsl:for-each>
> -> the output for example is: mike, john,
> -> i want to have: mike, john
> how can i concate the strings and substring it, so that the last comma 
> will be removed

<xsl:for-each select="person">
  <fo:inline color="white">
    <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
  </fo:inline>
  <xsl:if test="position()!=last()">
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

///Peter



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