> 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? 

It would make a difference if your text contained a character such as "<" or
"&". The XML output method would escape it, the text output method would
not.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> 
> > -----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.