From: "Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar(_at_)sil(_dot_)org>
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Subject: RE: [xsl] Newline problems
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 13:32:50 -0500
> I made changes to apply normalize-space to text nodes as
> suggested but
> output again has no data. Do you see any obvious mistakes?
> Simplified src
> xml and xsl are as shown below:
> ----------------------------------------------XML------------------
> <!DOCTYPE ABC [
> ...
> ]><ABC>
> ...
> <info>
> <attr>
> <name>
> ponumber</name>
> <atomicValue>
> 12345</atomicValue>
> </attr>
> ...
> </info>
> ...
> </ABC>
>
> ----------------------------------------------XSL------------------
>
> <?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"><!DOCTYPE
> OrderProcessing></xsl:text>
> <xsl:element name = "Order">
> <xsl:element name ="Info">
> <xsl:apply-templates mode = "Attribs" select = "/ABC/info"/>
> </xsl:element>
> </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
> ...
> <xsl:template mode = "Attribs" match = "info">
> <xsl:apply-templates mode = "stripNewline" select="text()"/>
> <xsl:element name = "PO_NUMBER">
> <xsl:value-of select="attr/atomicValue[../name='ponumber']"/>
> </xsl:element>
> ...
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template mode = "stripNewline" match="text()">
> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
> </xsl:template>
> ...
> </xsl:transform>
Vishwajit, it sounds like you are expecting the stripNewline template
to modify the source document, actually removing the newlines from
it so that the following xsl:value-of will be able to recognize the
node you're looking for. That approach will not work, because in XSL
you're not able to modify the source document. (That would be a side-
effect, which you're not supposed to be able to do.)
I believe what you want to do here is
<xsl:template mode = "Attribs" match = "info">
<xsl:element name = "PO_NUMBER">
<xsl:value-of
select="attr/atomicValue[normalize-space(../name)='ponumber']"/>
</xsl:element>
...
</xsl:template>
Lars
Wouldn't that require me to put normalize-space calls all over my xsl, since
most of the input xml values has newlines? I was just trying to follow the
suggestions made by Mike Brown, Michael Kay and others of using templates to
avoid this.
Vish.
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