FSG XML If statemenet not working

Question

Hi,
From XML generated from an FSG report, I am trying to ONLY print Discounts. RtpCell[1] is the header and below if statement is supposed to print if the column name is Discounts... doesn't work. Any ideas? Thanks.
<?for-each:fsg:RptLine?>
<?if: fsg:RptCell[1] =’Discounts’?>
<?fsg:RptCell[1]?>
<?end if?>
<?end for-each?>

Answer 1

Hi Hasan
The problem is that the FSG XML has some extra white space added to tag values so 'Total Sales' is actually 'Total Sales ' in the XML (IE kindly strips this out for you!) so when you try and test in your if statement it never evaluates to true so the if condition is not satisfied and your row does not show.
Now I doubt FSG will change the XML for you anytime soon so we need to work around it, there is an XSL function called normalize-space(ELEMENT) which will remove the leading and trailing space so you can use your if condition successfully.
So you if condition will look like:
<?if:normalize-space(fsg:RptCell[1]) = 'Gross Sales'?>
So you can now compare data against an expected value successfully. Now if you wanted to make the row heading or total row bold based on a fixed string you could add:
<?if:normalize-space(fsg:RptCell[1]) = 'Gross Sales'?>
<xsl:attribute xdofo:ctx="block" name="font-weight">bold</xsl:attribute>
<?end if?>
This is basically setting the font weight to bold if the condition is satisfied.
Hope this helps
Regards
Tim