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 hi all,
first - the problem: i'm building an xml doc from a database. some of
the fields contain variable amounts of whitespace. whenever my
stylesheet comes across a node containing only whitespace, i'd like to
turn it all into one html non-breaking space entity ( ). (i'm
already stripping whitespace from nodes whose values aren't
whitespace-only with the normalize-space() function.)
second - the questions: can i write an xpath expression to test for a
variable amount of whitespace? how would i do such a thing?
third - the relevent info: parser: MSXML 3 working in conjunction with
microsoft's xslisapi dll for IIS.
i'm pretty new to all of this; please forgive my ignorance.
thanks,
--bill
ahh yes, the xml:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" server-config="sampleconfig.xml" ?>
<employees>
<employee id="100" status="A">
<firstName>George </firstName>
<middleName> </middleName>
<lastName>Bush </lastName>
<emailAddress>george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx </emailAddress>
<homePhone>202-456-9999 </homePhone>
<mobilePhone> </mobilePhone>
<address id="1"/>
</employee>
</employees>
---
and the stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"
>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<style>
.sans {font-family:verdana; font-size:12px;}
.sansBigger {font-family:verdana; font-size:14px;}
</style>
<title>example two - using xsl:apply-templates</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ff9400" text="#ffff33">
<table bgcolor="#ffff33" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><table border="0" bgcolor="#ff9400" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1">
<tr bgcolor="#f58000">
<td class="sansBigger" nowrap="nowrap"><b class="sansBigger" >first
name</b></td>
<td class="sansBigger" nowrap="nowrap"><b>middle name</b></td>
<td class="sansBigger" nowrap="nowrap"><b>last name</b></td>
<td class="sansBigger" nowrap="nowrap"><b>email address</b></td>
<td class="sansBigger" nowrap="nowrap"><b>home phone</b></td>
<td class="sansBigger" nowrap="nowrap"><b>mobile phone</b></td>
</tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="nsEmployees/employee">
<xsl:sort select="lastName" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="employee">
<xsl:if test="@status = 'A'">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="firstName" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="middleName" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="lastName" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="emailAddress" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="homePhone" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="mobilePhone" />
</tr>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="firstName">
<td class="sans">
<xsl:if test="">
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" /></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="middleName">
<td class="sans"><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" /></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="lastName">
<td class="sans"><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" /></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="emailAddress">
<td class="sans"><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" /></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="homePhone">
<td class="sans"><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" /></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="mobilePhone">
<td class="sans"><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" /></td>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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