Re: Escaping newlines in an XSL file

Here's how I usually do it.  Not quite as readable as you would like, but
fairly good.

<xsl:template match="/RECORD">
 <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"
  />,<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_2"
 />,...<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
 </xsl:template>

Cheers,

Tom P

[ROBERTS Jeff]

> > I have the following problem:
> >
> > I have a Document tree that represents a single data record containing
> > multiple fields. I would like to convert this into a comma delimited
text
> > string using XSL.
> >
> > My current approach is to use the following XSL:
> >
> >  <xsl:template match="/RECORD">
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"/>,<xsl:value-of
> > select="child::ELEMENT_2"/>,...<xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
> >  </xsl:template>
> >
> > Where RECORD is actually the root of the tree - there is only 1 record
per
> > tree.
> >
> > My problem is that if I break up the second line in the above code so
that
> > there is one element per line  (for readability)
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_1"/>,
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_2"/>,
> >    ...
> >   <xsl:value-of select="child::ELEMENT_n"/>
> >
> > Then XSL will output the newlines found after each comma to the
resulting
> > file.
> >
> > Does anyone know a way I can break up the line above without having XSL
> > treat the New Lines as significant ?
> >
> > Perhaps I am walking down the wrong path with this. Unfortunately I have
> > no experience with XSL. The only thing I need it for is to do this one
> > simple transformation, but I'm finding the learning curve a little steep
> > at the beginning.
> >
> > Would *greatly* appreciate any help on this one!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jeff Roberts
> > Toronto
> >
> >
> >
>
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