Re: Formated text output

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Subject: Re: Formated text output
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:12:21 -0400

Luis,

Take a look at the <xsl:strip-space/> instruction in your favorite reference.

You probably want <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>. If this isn't sufficient (maybe your XML has extra whitespace also mixed in with data), you can use the string function normalize-space() to strip padding in your output.

Enjoy,
Wendell

At 11:25 AM 10/8/2002, you wrote:

Hi everybody,

First of all I have to say that I'm a newbie in XSL, so please apologize me if I submit basic questions. I think that my problem is very simple. I have quite complex data in a database and I want to export it in several formats. I want to generate an intermediate XML documet and apply to it different XSLT to transform to the specified format. Some of them are XML documents and other plain text with tab separated columns, my problem is related with the plain text formats. I have a XML document like this
<a>
   <b>
       <c att1="X" att2="Y">Z</c>
   </b>
</a>
And I want to generate a text file like this (tab separated columns)
=== BEGIN OF THE GENERATED DOC ===
X    Y    Z
=== END OF THE GENERATED DOC  ===

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Formated text output Luis Cornide Arce - Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Wendell Piez - Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:15:10 -0400 (EDT) <= Michael Kay - Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:51:27 -0400 (EDT) <Possible follow-ups> Richard Lander - Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:00:19 -0400 (EDT) DPawson - Wed, 9 Oct 2002 04:52:22 -0400 (EDT) David Carlisle - Wed, 9 Oct 2002 05:16:49 -0400 (EDT)

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