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[xsl] Is this the best way to emit one line per occurrence of an xpath?

2007-11-08 15:13:38
I had to write a simple stylesheet that prints out in text form one line
of text for every occurrence of a particular xpath in an input xml file.
I think I got it working, but I just wanted to ask for a critique of
this, to see if there are different ways of doing this.

The following is what I have so far:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">

  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
  
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates
select="/beans/bean[(_at_)singleton!='false']/@class"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="@class">
    <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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This produces output like this:

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org.apache.commons.chain.impl.ChainBase
com.wamu.stuff.Gork
com.wamu.foo.Bar
com.wamu.uia.framework.AdapterController
com.wamu.uia.adapter.HttpClientAdapter
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Again, this is exactly what I want, I was just wondering about
alternatives for doing the same thing.

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