transformation in text-mode

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Hi!

I have the following xml-node:

<docu>
<p>Sample: <b>bold</b></p>
<p>and text in <i>italic</i></p>
</docu>

I need to create a text-file, so I set the output-mode to text. In a docu-node you can write normal text and additionally html-tags.

In the text-file I should output that:

"<p>Sample: <b>bold</b></p><p>and text in <i>italic</i></p>"

i.e. compress text between <docu> and </docu> in a single line. I wrote this template - but it dont't work. The html-tags are filtered out and the linebreak is still there.

<xsl:template match="docu">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

In html-mode the html-tags will be copied.
How can I do this??

Thanx for help!
Jürgen

 

[Dimitre Novatchev]

By definition the setting method="text" in xslutput should only output the contents of the text nodes in the result tree:

"16.3 Text Output Method
The text output method outputs the result tree by outputting the string-value of every text node in the result tree in document order without any escaping."

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Text-Output-Method

Hi!

I have the following xml-node:

<docu>
<p>Sample: <b>bold</b></p>
<p>and text in <i>italic</i></p>
</docu>

I need to create a text-file, so I set the output-mode to text. In a docu-node you can write normal text and additionally html-tags.

In the text-file I should output that:

"<p>Sample: <b>bold</b></p><p>and text in <i>italic</i></p>"

i.e. compress text between <docu> and </docu> in a single line. I wrote this template - but it dont't work. The html-tags are filtered out and the linebreak is still there.

By definition the setting method="text" in xslutput should only output the contents of the text nodes in the result tree:

"16.3 Text Output Method
The text output method outputs the result tree by outputting the string-value of every text node in the result tree in document order without any escaping."

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Text-Output-Method

Therefore, if you need the element nodes copied, you must node use method="text".

<xsl:template match="docu">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

In html-mode the html-tags will be copied.
How can I do this??

You must read all about whitespace nodes processing in xslt.

The above xsl:copy-of in your code copies the subtree with root the current node ("docu") and this includes all of its whitespace-only descendents.

In case you do not need to process whitespace only nodes in your document, you can use:

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

This specifies that the whetespace-only text nodes of all elements are to be striped.

In case you only need to ignore whitespace-only children of specific elements and presereve the whitespace-only children for others, then you must explicitly specify the value of the "elements" attribute of xsl:strip-space as a blank-separated list of element names, whose children-whitespace-only-text nodes are to be stripped.

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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

 

[Andy Fish]

if the majority of your output file is xml (or html) and only a few bits aren't, you can use disable-output-escaping on only those sections which need text mode output. otherwise you will need to do something like this:

<xsl:template match="docu//*">
&lt;<xsl:value-of
select="name">&gt;<xsl:apply-templates/>&lt;/<xsl:value-of select="name">&gt; </xsl:template>

however, your other problem is you are not processing whitespace properly. If you want to remove whitespace nodes from the result tree you will need to exclude them when calling apply-templates. try something like

<xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*">

which will only select sub-elements and attributes, rather than the default which selects all child nodes (sorry - neither of these two examples are tested)

Andy