From xalan-dev  Mon Mar 13 15:07:07 2000
From: Paul_Dick () lotus ! com
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:07:07 +0000
To: xalan-dev
Subject: Re: indenting
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=xalan-dev&m=86952099710232


Chris,

XSLT is not really the tool for this.  Remember XSLT is the transform
engine of xsl.  The Formatting Objects portion of the spec is probably what
would be the better candidate for getting this type of indentation.

The indent attribute of the xsl:output statement is used for adding
additional whitespace to the output tree, not really specific elements.
That said the desired behavior can probably be achieved,  by indenting the
data with in the source .xml file.  The follow files produced what you
wanted.

XML source:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Book>
<Title> XSL transformations </Title>
<Summary>
   This is a block of text
   that gives a full summary
   of a book that describes
   how to use XSLT.
</Summary>
</Book>

Stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version
="1.0">

<xsl:template match="Book">
Book_Title: <xsl:value-of select="Entry_ID"/>
Summary: <xsl:value-of select="Summary"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Produced:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Book_Title:
Summary:
   This is a block of text
   that gives a full summary
   of a book that describes
   how to use XSLT.


Paul


                                                                                                                  
                    Chris Gokey                                                                                   
                    <cgokey@hydrogen.        To:     xalan-dev@xml.apache.org                                     
                    stx.com>                 cc:     (bcc: Paul Dick/CAM/Lotus)                                   
                    Sent by:                 Subject:     indenting                                               
                    cgokey@equinox.sh                                                                             
                    aysnet.com                                                                                    
                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                  
                    03/12/2000 06:55                                                                              
                    PM                                                                                            
                    Please respond to                                                                             
                    xalan-dev                                                                                     
                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                  




Hi everyone,

I am trying to figure out how to indent text using XSLT.  Consider this
XML document:

<Book>
<Title> XSL transformations </Title>
<Summary>
This is a block of text
that gives a full summary
of a book that describes
how to use XSLT.
</Summary>
</Book>

Consider this XSL file:

?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="Book">
Book_Title: <xsl:value-of select="Entry_ID"/>
Summary:
<xsl:value-of select="Summary"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Now, the output looks like this:

Book_Title: XSL Transformations
Summary:
This is a block of text
that gives a full summary
of a book that describes
how to use XSLT.

And this is what I'd like:

Book_Title: XSL Transformations
Summary:
   This is a block of text
   that gives a full summary
   of a book that describes
   how to use XSLT.

How can I tell my style sheet to indent each line?

Thanks,
Chris

--
Christopher D. Gokey, Raytheon ITSS, NASA/GCMD
18 Martin Road, Shelburne Falls, MA  01370
Phone: Voice (413) 625-8129 / FAX 208-248-9055
cgokey@gcmd.nasa.gov / http://gcmd.nasa.gov