XSL for fixed-length output

[JJ26]

Dear friends,

is there someone could help me ...
What is wrong with my XSL file which is converting an XML file into fixed-length output ?
Because I get 1 empty line before & after the fixed-length data.

Here's my XML

<library>
<book>
  <style>Z79</style>
  <title>Judul Judul</title>
</book>
<book>
  <style>V00333</style>
  <title>Judul Judul 2323</title>
</book>
</library>

and my XSL

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
<xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="book">
	<xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(style,'       '),1,10)"/>
	<xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(title,'       '),1,10)"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

the result i got

Z79       Judul Judu
V00333    Judul Judu

Thanks alot

Regards,
JJ

 

[k5tm]

Have you tried this?

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
<xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="book"><xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(style,'       '),1,10)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(title,'       '),1,10)"/></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

With text output mode, that whitespace is significant.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[tsuji]

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>Because I get 1 empty line before & after the fixed-length data.
Should we read as "Because I want to get..." or literally "Because I get ..."?
I cannot reproduce what you seem to suggest!

If you mean "want" to get 1 empty line before & after the fixed-length data, then you can try this.
[tt]
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:if test="position() = 1">
<xsl:text>&#x0d;&#x0a;</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(style,' '),1,10)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(title,' '),1,10)"/>
<xsl:text>&#x0d;&#x0a;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
[/tt]
The newline might be os-dependent, you might have to adjust accordingly.