On 07/03/2022 10:39 AM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen cmsmcq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> "H agents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately one of the fields of the XML records occasionally
>> contains LF characters which normally should not be part of the
>> field. Can xsltproc be used to replace the LF in this single field
>> with SPACE?
> If the element 'this-single-field' never has child elements, then
> something along the lines of
>
>     <xsl:template match="this-single-field">
>         <xsl:variable name="safe-value"
>                       select="translate(string(.), '&#x0A;', ' ')"/>
>                       
>         ... do what you need to do ...
>         ... and write $safe-value out where you need it ...
>     </
>
> If this-single-field may have child elements, then you need to call
> translate() on each text node within it.  So instead of handling it all
> at once as shown above, you'll need to handle it text-node by text-node:
>
>     <xsl:template match="text()[ancestor::this-single-field]">
>         <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '&#xA;', ' ')"/>
>     </
>
> If the line breaks in the input turn out to be important (e.g. people
> using them to separate paragraphs or items in lists -- it does happen),
> you might want to translate LF to "\n" instead of " ", and let
> downstream processes use the \n or not as they choose.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Michael Sperberg-McQueen
>
>
>
Thank you, worked great!