RE: Is this the best way to emit one line per occurren

That's what I would have thought, but I noticed that it appeared to make
not a bit of difference.  Under what circumstances would that actually
make any difference in the output?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:20 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Is this the best way to emit one line per
> occurrence of an xpath?
>
> My only suggestion would be that method="text" is more
> appropriate here than method="xml".
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 08 November 2007 22:13
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  Is this the best way to emit one line per
> occurrence of
> > an xpath?
> >
> > I had to write a simple stylesheet that prints out in text form one
> > line of text for every occurrence of a particular xpath in an input
> > xml file.
> > I think I got it working, but I just wanted to ask for a
> critique of
> > this, to see if there are different ways of doing this.
> >
> > The following is what I have so far:
> > --------------------------
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> >                 version="1.0">
> >
> >   <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> >
> >   <xsl:template match="/">
> >     <xsl:apply-templates
> > select="/beans/bean[@singleton!='false']/@class"/>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> >   <xsl:template match="@class">
> >     <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/><xsl:text>
> > </xsl:text>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> > --------------------------
> >
> > This produces output like this:
> >
> > --------------------------
> > org.apache.commons.chain.impl.ChainBase
> > com.wamu.stuff.Gork
> > com.wamu.foo.Bar
> > com.wamu.uia.framework.AdapterController
> > com.wamu.uia.adapter.HttpClientAdapter
> > --------------------------
> >
> > Again, this is exactly what I want, I was just wondering about
> > alternatives for doing the same thing.