Formatting

syrex · November 4th, 2005, 02:43 PM

I am trying to display the following without a comma after the last element...how can I do this? Its been driving me mad for hours trying to figure it out!! Thanks in advance!

Code:

<xsl:choose>

  <xsl:when test="Author!=''">
    <xsl:value-of select="Author"/>
  </xsl:when>

  <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:value-of select="Editor"/>
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>

    <xsl:for-each select="Contributors/Author">
      <xsl:if test=".!=../../Editor">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:otherwise>                     

</xsl:choose>

The section in red is place where I want to have no element after the last item. It is reading from a list of items and putting commas after them in the output...don't want a comma after the last one!
Thanks again :)

mhkay · November 4th, 2005, 03:02 PM

In 1.0:

<xsl:for-each select="Contributors/Author">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

In 2.0

<xsl:value-of select="Contributors/Author" separator=", "/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

syrex · November 5th, 2005, 08:23 AM

mhkay thanks a million you're a life saver! Much appreciated.