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Re: Escaping newlines in an XSL file
- From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:39:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Escaping newlines in an XSL file
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Here's how I usually do it. Not quite as readable as you would like, but
fairly good.
<xsl:template match="/RECORD">
<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"
/>,<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_2"
/>,...<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
</xsl:template>
Cheers,
Tom P
[ROBERTS Jeff]
> > I have the following problem:
> >
> > I have a Document tree that represents a single data record containing
> > multiple fields. I would like to convert this into a comma delimited
text
> > string using XSL.
> >
> > My current approach is to use the following XSL:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="/RECORD">
> > <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"/>,<xsl:value-of
> > select="child::ELEMENT_2"/>,...<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > Where RECORD is actually the root of the tree - there is only 1 record
per
> > tree.
> >
> > My problem is that if I break up the second line in the above code so
that
> > there is one element per line (for readability)
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"/>,
> > <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_2"/>,
> > ...
> > <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
> >
> > Then XSL will output the newlines found after each comma to the
resulting
> > file.
> >
> > Does anyone know a way I can break up the line above without having XSL
> > treat the New Lines as significant ?
> >
> > Perhaps I am walking down the wrong path with this. Unfortunately I have
> > no experience with XSL. The only thing I need it for is to do this one
> > simple transformation, but I'm finding the learning curve a little steep
> > at the beginning.
> >
> > Would *greatly* appreciate any help on this one!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jeff Roberts
> > Toronto
> >
> >
> >
>
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