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From: "Vasu Chakkera" <vasucv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 18:31:22 +0000

Hi Amanda.. The unicode symbol for tab is #x9; so u have to use this for producing a tab in the output.. an example would be.. if your xml file is <students> <student> <name>A.J.Nonameson</name> <age>23</age> <college>Best-college</college> </student> <student> <name>P.J.Somenameson</name> <age>23</age> <college>Worst-college</college> </student> </students> ----- and xsl would be <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> <xsl:template match="student"> <xsl:value-of select="name"/><xsl:text>	</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="age"/><xsl:text>	</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="college"/> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> --- to produce a result.. A.J.Nonameson 23 Best-college P.J.Somenameson 23 Worst-college ----- The important things when dealing with text output is.. 1. <xsl:output> declaration... you should declare the method to be text and make sure you omit-xml- declaration ** <xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> ** 2. Unicode Symbols for characters like tab,newline,carraige return, space etc..

tab ---> #x9 space ---->#x20 newline --->#xa carraige return-->#xD check up the above code to see how these are used ( u should use them with <xsl:text></xsl:text> ..as in <xsl:text>	</xsl:text> for tab and <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> for a newline..

Hope this helps
Vasu

>
> Hello, List,
> I have been asked to add a feature to our web application that will
> transform our XML into tab-delimited text data, displayed in a
> new window,
> so that the user can then save it for later use in that
> format.  Unfortunately, I am currently limited to what can be done with
> MSXML 2.5 (been told we have to support IE5 without any upgrades to the
> parser).
>
> Although I've done a lot of XML-to-XML and XML-to-HTML transformations,
> I've never done XML-to-text before.  Can anyone direct me on how I would
> (a) cause tabs to appear in the output, and (b) cause linebreaks
> to appear
> in the output?


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