RE: xls:for-each not working

Why are the white spaces in my xml file not
maintained?  There are some white spaces(mutliple ws)
and it only outputs one.  I read that
<xsl:perserve-space elements="transaction_data" does
not need to be called b/c it is the default.  How can
I maintain those white spaces?


--- cknell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Since the <transaction_detail> element is a child of
> <row> and not the root element of the document, you
> must lose the intial "/" in the XPath selecting it.
> In other words, change this:
> <xsl:value-of select="/transaction_detail"/>
> to this:
> <xsl:value-of select="transaction_detail"/>
> 
> On a more fundamental note. There appears to be no
> reason to use for-each here. Switch to the more
> natural (for XSLT) <xsl:apply-templates> approach.
> Taking a few liberties with the unstated parts of
> your transformation, this is the stylesheet I
> recommend:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
>   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"
> encoding="UTF-8" />
>   <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
> 
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <fo:root>
>       <fo:layout-master-set>
>         <fo:simple-page-master master-name="base">
>           <fo:region-body region-name="body"
>            margin-top="0.5in"
>            margin-bottom="0.5in"
>            margin-left="0.5in"
>            margin-right="0.5in" />
>         </fo:simple-page-master>
>       </fo:layout-master-set>
>       <fo:page-sequence master-reference="base">
>         <fo:flow flow-name="body">
>           <xsl:apply-templates />
>         </fo:flow>
>       </fo:page-sequence>
>     </fo:root>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="invoice">
>     <xsl:apply-templates />
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="detail">
>     <xsl:apply-templates />
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="row">
>     <xsl:apply-templates />
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="transaction_detail">
>     <fo:block>
>       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>     </fo:block>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="line_sequence" />
>   <xsl:template match="format_control" />
>   <xsl:template match="group_no" />
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> -- 
> Charles Knell
> cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:     josh higgins <doopsterus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent:     Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:47:15 -0800 (PST)
> To:       xsl <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:   xls:for-each not working
> 
> I cannot get my for-each statement to work.  Am I
> doing this incorrectly?   I am just wanting to
> output
> all of the data in the xml file that has a
> <transaction_data> tag.  Here is my statement and
> below is the sample xml.  I use this to attempt to
> display my template <xsl:call-template
> name="detail"/>
>  Please help!
> 
> Thanks!
> Josh
> 
> <xsl:template name="detail">
> 	<xsl:for-each select="/invoice/detail/row">
> 		<fo:block>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="/transaction_detail"/>
> 		</fo:block>
> 		
> 	</xsl:for-each> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> SAMPLE XML
> <invoice>
> <detail>
> 		<row>
> 			<line_sequence>1</line_sequence>
> 			<transaction_detail>Activity for (620)
> 251-1559</transaction_detail>
> 			<format_control>C1</format_control>
> 			<group_no>1</group_no>
> 		</row>
> 		<row>
> 			<line_sequence>2</line_sequence>
> 			<group_no>1</group_no>
> 		</row>
> 		<row>
> 			<line_sequence>3</line_sequence>
> 			<transaction_detail>    Transaction
> Activity</transaction_detail>
> 			<format_control>C1</format_control>
> 			<group_no>1</group_no>
> 		</row>
> 		<row>
> 			<line_sequence>4</line_sequence>
> 			<format_control>U1</format_control>
> 			<group_no>1</group_no>
> 		</row>
> 		<row>
> 			<line_sequence>5</line_sequence>
> 			<transaction_detail>       
> Description</transaction_detail>
> 			<group_no>1</group_no>
> 		</row>
> 		<row>
> 			<line_sequence>6</line_sequence>
> 			<transaction_detail>       
>
============================================================================</transaction_detail>
> 			<group_no>1</group_no>
> 		</row>
> </detail>
> </invoice>
> 
> 
> 
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