Re: [xsl] Output flat file results 2 nodes at a time?

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Subject: Re: Output flat file results 2 nodes at a time?
From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 17:00:22 +0200

David Carlisle wrote:

(ah, I see that David beat me to it with a much shorter approach ;)
Nah, that was the long approach, the shorter approach is just to use a
single xpath 2 expression:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="shipment"> <xsl:value-of select="'
REC1*',header/string(shipmentId), detail/po/(if(position() mod 2 = 1) then '
REC2*' else '*', string()), detail/containers/box/(if(position() mod 4 = 1) then '
REC3*' else '*',string())" separator=""/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

That's a beauty! Reading it, I much like the shortcut of deatil/po(if ...) etc. I then hoped, that the if-statement could be replaced with a predicate, but that wouldn't work, as the position() will then be about the sequence and not the element, like here:

detail/po/(('*', '
REC2*')[position() mod 2 + 1], string())

and even if it worked, it'd be questionable whether it'd be clearer than the if-syntax.

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Output flat file results 2 nodes at a time? Chris - 9 May 2007 13:00:44 -0000 David Carlisle - 9 May 2007 13:20:44 -0000 Abel Braaksma - 9 May 2007 13:59:07 -0000 David Carlisle - 9 May 2007 14:14:04 -0000 Abel Braaksma - 9 May 2007 15:02:49 -0000 <= Michael Kay - 9 May 2007 15:30:16 -0000 Abel Braaksma - 9 May 2007 16:52:49 -0000

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