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Re: Formatting XSL for XML to CSV translation

2003-09-18 08:17:25

<xsl:for-each select="xml/
If that's what's in your input I suppose it can't be helped but the
producer should not be generating an xml element called xml (or
beginning with x m l ) such names are reserved by the XML spec.

Unfortunately, this means that each value ends up on its own line. 

white space nodes in the stylesheet are ignored  (except in xsl:text)


so

   <xsl:value-of select="@field1"/>
   <xsl:value-of select="@field2"/>

wouldn't generate a newline, but you have

      <xsl:value-of select="@field1"/>,
      <xsl:value-of select="@field2"/>,

so the text node isn't white: it has a comma, a newline and some spaces
so it is kept.

instead do

   <xsl:value-of select="@field1"/>
   <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
   <xsl:value-of select="@field2"/>
   <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>

Now all the text nodes are white and you can indent to your heart's
content.

David

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