[xsl] plain text output

[Guy McArthur <guym at guymcarthur dot com>]

What I've read so far for plain text output is unsatisfying. I have two 
issues.

1. Preventing initial first lines.

This template will print a blank first line.

<xsl:template>
PDS_VERSION_ID          = PDS3
RECORD_TYPE             = FIXED_LENGTH
</xsl:template>

Something like this will not.

<xsl:template>
<xsl:text/>PDS_VERSION_ID          = PDS3
RECORD_TYPE             = FIXED_LENGTH
</xsl:template>

But this breaks one of the features of xsl that I like, that it can look 
like the document it is mean to output. (I know, it's not meant to output 
documents, but xml trees ...).

2. Inserting a carriage return.

Simarly, putting in a bunch of
<xsl:text>&#13;</xsl:text>
elements disrupts the stylesheet.

Is there any easier way to do it? 

Right now I use a post-process perl script to take care of issues #1 and 
#2 but would like to have an all-xslt solution. But I guess you can't have 
your xslt cake and eat it too....


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