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Posted to j-users@xalan.apache.org by Doug Lochart <dl...@capecomputing.com> on 2004/08/13 22:18:44 UTC
Generating multiple newlines in output
Greetings,
I am trying to format a text report from an xml document. There are sevral places I need to have 2 or 3 blank lines. I have my xsl:output set to the following:
<xsl:output method="text"/>
In my xsl stylesheet I have many of the following:
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
Each time I only get one blank line. However I discovered if I place a space after the 
 like so:
<xsl:text>
 </xsl:text>
I will that blank line plus the next one. I find this very confusing and frustrating. Can someone please shed some light as to what is happening and what it is I need to do to accomplish my goals?
Thanks in advance,
Doug Lochart
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Of the only world that we see.
Things that I once dreamed of
Have become reality.
These walls that still surround me
Still contain the same old me,
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A world that ought to be.
Re: Generating multiple newlines in output
Posted by Doug Lochart <dl...@capecomputing.com>.
Ok I feel like an idiot. I was looking at the driver program that I was
given to use and for some reason after the second pass transformation they
tokenize the output stream and add each token to a list and then save the
array items off in the result file. The tokenizing was missing the extra
new lines.
Thanks for the offering of help anyway
Doug
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Of the only world that we see.
Things that I once dreamed of
Have become reality.
These walls that still surround me
Still contain the same old me,
Just one more who's searching for
A world that ought to be.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Zongaro" <zo...@ca.ibm.com>
To: "Doug Lochart" <dl...@capecomputing.com>
Cc: <xa...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: Generating multiple newlines in output
> Hi, Doug.
>
> "Doug Lochart" <dl...@capecomputing.com> wrote on 08/13/2004 04:18:44
> PM:
> > I am trying to format a text report from an xml document. There are
> > sevral places I need to have 2 or 3 blank lines. I have my xsl:
> > output set to the following:
> >
> > <xsl:output method="text"/>
> >
> > In my xsl stylesheet I have many of the following:
> >
> > <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> > <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> >
> > <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> > <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> > <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> >
> > Each time I only get one blank line.
>
> I don't seem to be able to reproduce the problem from your
> description. I tried several versions of Xalan-J. I always get a new
> line in my output for each instance of "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>" that
> is executed in my stylesheet.
>
> Could I ask you to provide a complete stylesheet, input document and
> expected result?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Henry
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Henry Zongaro Xalan development
> IBM SWS Toronto Lab T/L 969-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044
> mailto:zongaro@ca.ibm.com
>
Re: Generating multiple newlines in output
Posted by Henry Zongaro <zo...@ca.ibm.com>.
Hi, Doug.
"Doug Lochart" <dl...@capecomputing.com> wrote on 08/13/2004 04:18:44
PM:
> I am trying to format a text report from an xml document. There are
> sevral places I need to have 2 or 3 blank lines. I have my xsl:
> output set to the following:
>
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
> In my xsl stylesheet I have many of the following:
>
> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
>
> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
>
> Each time I only get one blank line.
I don't seem to be able to reproduce the problem from your
description. I tried several versions of Xalan-J. I always get a new
line in my output for each instance of "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>" that
is executed in my stylesheet.
Could I ask you to provide a complete stylesheet, input document and
expected result?
Thanks,
Henry
------------------------------------------------------------------
Henry Zongaro Xalan development
IBM SWS Toronto Lab T/L 969-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044
mailto:zongaro@ca.ibm.com