Lately I have become a huge fan of XSL, XPath and XML, but I've only used it to format outputted html documents, with a head and body sections.
I was wondering if its possible to use good of XSLT to format other types of documents, like plain txt?
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A:
Yes of course - just use
<xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>
instead of
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
Marc
UPDATE: whitespace and formatting text exactly as needed are always a bit tricky in XSLT. Check out some of those references:
- XML.com: controlling whitespace
- XSL Primer (part 5 has a note about whitespace)
marc_s
2009-09-13 07:15:42
Thanks Marc, will line breaks occur naturally, same as in the template?
JL
2009-09-13 07:16:44
If you use direct element constructors, whitespace within will be collapsed by the usual rules. `<xsl:text>` is space-preserving, and lets you control output at character precision, however.
Pavel Minaev
2009-09-13 07:59:52