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samwise
samwise

Reputation: 299

How do I format a XML file/output of an XQuery expression?

After exceuting a xquery expression, the output is all 'together'. How do I add a newline or space inbetween elements of an xquery.

Is it through this: 

 <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>

If so, where do I put it within the xquery expression?

So I get:

<a><b>asdasdasd</b></a>

I want:

<a>
    <b>asdasdasd<b>
<a>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1427

Answers (2)

grtjn
grtjn

Reputation: 20414

The output or serialization specifications described by W3C ( http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/ ) apply to both XSLT and XQuery. The difference is that it is well known how to use that in XSLT (the xsl:output instruction), whereas it hasn't been incorporated like that in the XQuery 1.0 specification. Most implementations provided custom extension to support it though. You would be looking for an indent="yes" property.

If you could share with us which XQuery implementation you are using, we could provided more details on how to enforce indentation.

Upvotes: 1

Tony Hopkinson
Tony Hopkinson

Reputation: 20330

That layout is usually done on windows with a built in XSLT provided with MSXML.

so you can apply it to the result of your XQuery (if teh resukt is valid xml !) Rember the output is HTML.

Last I looked the xsl was in one of the msxml dlls as a resource and called DefaultSS.xsl

If this is just for display, another way is to save the output to a temporary file.

Add a webbrowser control and then navigate to the file.

If you don't like the idea of the file, then HTMLDocument is possibility, it's not pretty though.

Upvotes: 0

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