XML (XSLT query)

Question

I have an XML file as shown below
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ROWSET>
<ROW id="1">
<EMPNO>10</EMPNO>
<ENAME>Scott</ENAME>
</ROW>
<ROW id="2">
<EMPNO>20</EMPNO>
<ENAME>Josh</ENAME>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
I have a requirement that I want toconvert the above XML file to an
ASCII(text) file
that does not contain any markup tags at all and the fields are padded
with the space.
So the ASCII file that I want to generate should look like
10 Scott 20 Josh 30
<--------------><-------------><---------
As of now when I generate ASCII file I get a format
10Scott20Josh30 and so on.
Please advise how to write a stylesheet for this requirement.
Steve has suggested the solution to do this with recursive
call-template which
outputs a space and decrements a counter, then recurses. I was wondering
if anybody
has already done this and if you have a piece of code to do this. I will
appreciate.
ThanX in advance for the replies.
Ashu Gupta

Answer 1

Hi,
Try implementing the below piece of XSLT:
<xsl:variable name="Temp">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(/InputXml/Details, '&#xA;', '|')"/>
</xsl:variable>
<Details1>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($Temp,'|')"/>
</Details1>
<Details2>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($Temp,'|'),'|')"/>
</Details2>
<Details3>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(substring-after($Temp,'|'),'|')"/>
</Details3>
This will give the output:
<Details1>First Employee</Details1>
<Details2>Second Employee</Details2>
<Details3>Third Employee</Details3>
Cheers,
-AR