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Pete DanesSubject: Separator -only- between fields
Author: Pete Danes
Date: 05 Nov 2009 06:10 AM
My apologies if this is a silly question, but I'm rather new at this, and searching the forums did not shed any light.

I have a working transform that extracts a set of names from an XML file, each with their own tag:

<name>Fred</name>
<name>Bill</name>
<name>Andy</name>
<name>Mike</name>

I need to output them with the names separated by a semicolon, but NOT after the last one, i.e.:

Fred; Bill; Andy; Mike

In normal programming languages, this is trivial, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do this in XSL. I do have another field available, which contains the number of names, if that would be of any use, something like:

<count-of-names>4</count-of-names>

Pete
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Tony LavinioSubject: Separator -only- between fields
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 06 Nov 2009 08:14 AM
For input like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<list>
<name>Fred</name>
<name>Bill</name>
<name>Andy</name>
<name>Mike</name>
</list>

The following will work. Notice the use of position() and last().

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="list/name"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="name">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:if test="position() &lt; last()">
<xsl:text>; </xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

General XSLT-related questions, though, are best asked on the
xsl-list run by Mulberry Technologies.

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Pete DanesSubject: Separator -only- between fields
Author: Pete Danes
Date: 06 Nov 2009 09:07 AM
Great, thank you. This XSL stuff takes some getting used to, but I'm enjoying the learning.

Pete
   
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