Formatting Output

amendir · July 7th, 2011, 07:43 AM

Hello, I am wondering/ having a problem figuring out formatting in XSLT.

I have this XSL

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" encoding="utf-8" indent="no" />
   
   <!-- MasterClip Vars -->
  <xsl:variable name="fields" select="'|clip_description|episode_no|rushes_roll_number|source_image_format|technical_comments|broadcast_time|first_broadcast_channel|Keywords|original_transmission_date|episode_title|contributor'" />
   
    <!--Global-->
    <xsl:template match="Global">
        <Global>
            <xsl:apply-templates />
        </Global>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="GlobalParam">
        <GlobalParam>
            <xsl:attribute name="name">
                <xsl:value-of select="@name" />
            </xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:attribute name="value">
                <xsl:value-of select="@value" />
            </xsl:attribute>
        </GlobalParam>
    </xsl:template>
 
 <!---Roll--> 
 <xsl:template match="Roll">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

 
 
 
 <!--MasterClip -->
     
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
        <xsl:text>
		</xsl:text>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="MasterClip">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="*[contains($fields, concat('|', @name, '|'))]" />
        </xsl:copy>
       
	
    </xsl:template>
    
</xsl:stylesheet>

And it gives me the correct output , but if you can see....

Code:

<FileImport>
  <Global>
    <GlobalParam name="RollName" value="Scene_Around_Six_Tape_3_BUFVC003-14 10:00:00:00" />
    <GlobalParam name="TapeOrg" value="10:00:00:00" />
    <GlobalParam name="ReadStart" value="00:00:00:00" />
    <GlobalParam name="ReadDuration" value="00:02:26:18" />
  </Global>
  <Roll />
  <MasterClip><Field name="clip_description" value="Interview Captain Austin Ardill re Terence O'Neill" group="Ingest">
		</Field><Field name="rushes_roll_number" value="" group="Ingest">
		</Field><Field name="source_image_format" value="" group="Ingest">
		</Field><Field name="technical_comments" value="" group="Ingest">
		</Field><Field name="broadcast_time" value="18:00" group="">
		</Field><Field name="first_broadcast_channel" value="" group="">
		</Field><Field name="original_transmission_date" value="27/01/1969 00:00:00" group="">
		</Field><Field name="episode_title" value="Scene_Around_Six_27_01_1969" group="News Archive">
		</Field></MasterClip>

		</FileImport>

In my output for MasterClip it starts directly with the next tag e.g <MasterClip><Field name= .... And ends " </Field></MasterClip>" On the same line , the root element end tag also gets indented , what i would like is that the MasterClip tags start and end on their own line and that the </FileImport> tag has no indentation.

I have tried a few different ways but with no success . If possible could you help me and provide an explanation , maybe common tips/tricks to keep me right. Thank you for your time.

Martin Honnen · July 7th, 2011, 07:51 AM

Consider to post the XML input document.
Generally if you want to indent your result XML and don't want to copy any white space from the input then do

Code:

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

mhkay · July 7th, 2011, 08:02 AM

You haven't shown the source document. My guess is the unwanted whitespace is being copied from the source. The indent="no" option isn't allowed to mess about with whitespace between a "simple content" start and end tag.