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StillStumbling
StillStumbling

Reputation: 89

Spaces in output

I am trying to transform an xml document into another document to get a comma dlimited string. However, when I transform I see a lot of spaces.

I am not sure what is causing this and what should I do to fix this issue -

XML File Input

    <File>
<row>
    <wid>WID0001</wid>
    <xtn>Leave Record</xtn>
    <status>In Process</status>
    <eid>E001</eid>
    <amt>5000</amt>
</row>


<row>
    <wid>WID0003</wid>
    <xtn>Leave Record</xtn>
    <status>In Process</status>
    <eid>E005</eid>
    <amt>3000</amt>
</row>

<row>
    <wid>WID0010</wid>
    <xtn>Leave Record</xtn>
    <status>In Process</status>
    <eid>E010</eid>
    <amt>7000</amt>
</row>


<row>
    <wid>WID0007</wid>
    <xtn>Leave Record</xtn>
    <status>In Process</status>
    <eid>E010</eid>
    <amt>0000</amt>
</row>

<row>
    <wid>WID0050</wid>
    <xtn>Leave Record</xtn>
    <status>In Process</status>
    <eid>E025</eid>
    <amt>750000</amt>
</row>

</File>

And the XSLT -

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:this="http://abogusurl.com">

    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml" />

        <xsl:template match="/File">
            <widlist>
                <xsl:apply-templates />
            </widlist>
        </xsl:template>

       <xsl:template match="row">
            <xsl:value-of select="wid" /> 
            <xsl:value-of select="','" />
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<widlist x xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:this="http://abogusurl.com">
WID0001,


WID0003,

WID0010,


WID0007,

WID0050,

</widlist>

How do I eliminate the spaces?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 908

Answers (2)

Mads Hansen
Mads Hansen

Reputation: 66781

Your XML has text() nodes between the row elements. The built-in template rules preserve them in the output.

You can suppress those text() nodes by adding an empty template that matches those whitespace-only text nodes:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>

    <xsl:template match="/File">
        <widlist>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </widlist>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="row">
        <xsl:value-of select="wid"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <!--suppress whitespace-only text nodes-->
    <xsl:template match="text()[not(normalize-space())]"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

You could also have the empty template match File/text():

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>

    <xsl:template match="/File">
        <widlist>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </widlist>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="row">
        <xsl:value-of select="wid"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <!--suppress (whitespace) text nodes that are children of File-->
    <xsl:template match="File/text()"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Or you can exclude those File/text() nodes by only applying templates to the row elements in the File template:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>

    <xsl:template match="/File">
        <widlist>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="row"/>
        </widlist>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="row">
        <xsl:value-of select="wid"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

All of these solutions remove the extra whitespace and linebreaks and produce the following output:

<widlist>WID0001,WID0003,WID0010,WID0007,WID0050,</widlist>

This implementation is currently producing a trailing comma in the widlist.

You can fix that by changing the row template:

<xsl:template match="row">
    <xsl:value-of select="wid"/>
    <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
        <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

If you are using XSLT 2.0 and want to produce a comma separated list, you could shorten your stylesheet to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>

    <xsl:template match="/File">
        <widlist>
            <xsl:value-of select="row/wid" separator=","/>
        </widlist>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Upvotes: 2

sideshowbarker
sideshowbarker

Reputation: 88286

So I think adding <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> will do what you want.

Upvotes: 2

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