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jr linnihanSubject: Concatenate Same Element
Author: jr linnihan
Date: 24 Aug 2007 11:36 AM
I am new to XSLT programming and am trying to concatenate a series of elements that have the same name.

Here is a sample of my source XML:

<ordmsg>
<type>I</type>
<text>statement 1</text>
<text>statement 2</text>
<text>statement 3</text>
<text>statement 4</text>
<text>statement 5</text>
</ordmsg>

For my output I need to see:

<CommentType>I</CommentType>
<Text>statement 1 statement 2 statement 3 statement 4 statement 5</Text>

My XSLT currently looks like this:

<Comments>
<xsl:for-each select="ordmsg">
<Comment>
<xsl:attribute name="CommentType">
<xsl:value-of select="type" />
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="Text">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="text and string-length(normalize-space(text))=0">
<xsl:value-of select="'.'" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="text" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
</Comment>
</xsl:for-each>
</Comments>


The problem with this is that it is only returning the first <Text> element "statement 1". I need it to combine all <Text> elements.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
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Minollo I.Subject: Concatenate Same Element
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 24 Aug 2007 03:59 PM
...something like this?

<Comments>
<xsl:for-each select="ordmsg">
<Comment>
<xsl:attribute name="CommentType">
<xsl:value-of select="type"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="Text">
<xsl:for-each select="text">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=". and string-length(normalize-space(.))=0">
<xsl:value-of select="'.'"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:attribute>
</Comment>
</xsl:for-each>
</Comments>
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jr linnihanSubject: Concatenate Same Element
Author: jr linnihan
Date: 24 Aug 2007 05:16 PM
Perfect.

Thanks!
   
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