<stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<output method="text"/>
<template match="/">
<for-each select="/beans/bean[(_at_)singleton!='false']/@class">
<value-of select="concat(normalize-space(), ' ')"/>
</for-each>
</template>
</stylesheet>
Unless you want the same behavior for @class in another section of your
stylesheet, I'd replace the template with a for-each, especially when
its content is so simple. <output method="text"/> is much simpler,
unless you're actually producing XML elsewhere in your stylesheet. And
with <output method="text"/>, you're not producing namespaces in your
output, so you can drop the xsl: prefix and work directly with the XSLT
elements.
But the logic is the same; all of the changes here are personal coding
style preferences. Take them or leave them, you asked. ^_^
~ Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Karr, David [mailto:david(_dot_)karr(_at_)wamu(_dot_)net]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:13 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Is this the best way to emit one line per occurrence of
an xpath?
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:
--------------------------
<?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>
--------------------------
This produces output like this:
--------------------------
org.apache.commons.chain.impl.ChainBase
com.wamu.stuff.Gork
com.wamu.foo.Bar
com.wamu.uia.framework.AdapterController
com.wamu.uia.adapter.HttpClientAdapter
--------------------------
Again, this is exactly what I want, I was just wondering about
alternatives for doing the same thing.
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