Maintaining spaces with xsl transformation of xml

newbie404 · Jun 14, 2004

Hi,

I have some trouble getting my xml to display correctly using xsl. I have a node with formatting which can also contain changes which are marked <insertion> or <deletion>. Insertions should be shown, deletions should not.

A sample piece of this xml is:

<Text> text<inserted> </inserted>text</Text>

<Text>this is added withbold bold italic courier italic courier bold italic courier on its own and normal text</Text>

The first node above has a space inserted between the two words "text" and the second has lots of insertions and deletions with formatting.

I find that when I use

<xsl:template match="inserted">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

I get the spaces, but not the formatting, whereas when I use

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

I get the formatting but not the spaces. Note: the formatting is put in by also having
<xsl:template match="br">
 
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="i">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="b">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

</xsl:template>

in my xsl.

My question is - how can I get the content to show both, while still not showing any deleted text, which I have currently working through

<xsl:template match="deleted"/>

in the xsl.

Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated!

thanks
A

mountainbiker · Jun 16, 2004

XML:

Code:

<Article>
	<Text> text<inserted> </inserted>
		<b>te</b>xt</Text>
	<Text>this is added with b<b>old <br/>
			<br/>
		</b>
		<b>
			<i>bold italic</i>
		</b>
		<b>
			<br/>
			<br/>
		</b>
		<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">
			<i>courier italic<br/>
				<br/>
			</i>
		</font>
		<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">
			<b>courier bold<br/>
				<br/>
			</b>
		</font>
		<i>italic<br/>
			<br/>
		</i>
		<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">courier on its own</font>
		<i>
			<br/>
			<br/>
		</i>and normal text</Text>
</Article>

XSL:

Code:

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

	<xsl:template match="/">
		<html>
			<head>
				<title>TEST</title>
			</head>
			<body><xsl:apply-templates/></body>
		</html>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="inserted">
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="br">
	   <br/>
	   <xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="i">
	  <i><xsl:apply-templates/></i>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="b">
		<b><xsl:apply-templates/></b>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="font">
		<font style="{@face}"><xsl:apply-templates/></font>
	</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

HTML:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>TEST</title>
</head>
<body>
	 text 
		<b>te</b>xt
	this is added with b<b>old <br/>
			<br/>
		</b>
		<b>
			<i>bold italic</i>
		</b>
		<b>
			<br/>
			<br/>
		</b>
		<font style="Courier New, Courier, mono">
			<i>courier italic<br/>
				<br/>
			</i>
		</font>
		<font style="Courier New, Courier, mono">
			<b>courier bold<br/>
				<br/>
			</b>
		</font>
		<i>italic<br/>
			<br/>
		</i>
		<font style="Courier New, Courier, mono">courier on its own</font>
		<i>
			<br/>
			<br/>
		</i>and normal text
</body>
</html>

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