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  • Steven
    #1

    formatting text with XSLT

    I have song lyrics typed out in my XML file in paragraphcs (verse,
    chorus, verse, etc) but when I load them with my XSLT stylesheet, the
    paragraphs are lost and all the words are jumbled together. I've tried
    everything I could find in Microsoft's SDK help file, but nothing
    worked. any ideas?

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    • Richard Light
      #2
      Re: formatting text with XSLT

      In message <1112327016.704 969.230160@f14g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>,
      Steven <steven.beckham @gmail.com> writes[color=blue]
      >I have song lyrics typed out in my XML file in paragraphcs (verse,
      >chorus, verse, etc) but when I load them with my XSLT stylesheet, the
      >paragraphs are lost and all the words are jumbled together. I've tried
      >everything I could find in Microsoft's SDK help file, but nothing
      >worked. any ideas?[/color]

      Are you willing to share examples of your XML, and your XSLT stylesheet,
      with the group? We might then be able to help.

      --
      Richard Light
      SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
      richard@light.d emon.co.uk

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        • Steven
          #3
          Re: formatting text with XSLT

          -------------------XML File-----------------------

          <?xml version="1.0"?>
          <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/BBN/songs.xsl"?>

          <data>
          <artist>Hoobast ank</artist>
          <album>The Reason</album>
          <release>2004 </release>
          <song title="The Reason" track="08">
          I'm not a perfect person
          As many things I wish I didn't do
          But I continue learning
          I never meant to do those things to you
          And so I have to say before I go
          That I just want you to know

          I've found a reason for me
          To change who I used to be
          A reason to start over new
          And the reason is you
          </song>
          </data>

          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^XML File^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^

          ----------------------XSL File----------------

          <?xml version="1.0"?>
          <xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
          xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
          <xsl:template match="data">
          <html>
          <head>
          <title>
          <xsl:value-of select="artist"/> -
          <xsl:value-of select="album"/>
          </title>
          </head>
          <body bgcolor="#FFFFC C">
          <table border="0" width="835" cellspacing="3"
          cellpadding="2" >
          <tr>
          <td align="center">
          <font size="5"><i>
          <xsl:value-of
          select="artist"/> - <xsl:value-of select="album"/>
          </i></font>
          </td>
          </tr>
          <xsl:for-each select="song">
          <xsl:sort select="./@track"/>
          <tr>
          <td>

          <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
          </td>
          </tr>
          </xsl:for-each>
          </table>
          </body>
          </html>
          </xsl:template>

          <xsl:template match="song">
          <font size="4"><b>
          <xsl:value-of select="@title"/>
          </b></font>
          <br/>
          <xsl:value-of select="."/>
          <p/>
          </xsl:template>

          </xsl:stylesheet>
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^XSL File^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^

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            • Richard Light
              #4
              Re: formatting text with XSLT


              The specific problem is that this code:

              <xsl:value-of select="."/>
              <p/>

              outputs the text of your <song> element, followed by an empty paragraph.
              If you want the text _inside_ the paragraph, do:

              <p>
              <xsl:value-of select="."/>
              </p>

              However, this won't get you a lot further: the basic markup of each song
              is a bit on the light side. If you had e.g.:

              <verse>
              <l>I'm not a perfect person</l>
              <l>As many things I wish I didn't do</l>
              ....
              </verse>
              <verse>
              <l>I've found a reason for me</l>
              ....

              it would be possible to make much better use of the information, and
              specifically it would make it easy to format it nicely using XSLT.

              Richard

              In message <1112341386.324 916.126000@o13g 2000cwo.googleg roups.com>,
              Steven <steven.beckham @gmail.com> writes[color=blue]
              >-------------------XML File-----------------------
              >
              ><?xml version="1.0"?>
              ><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/BBN/songs.xsl"?>
              >
              ><data>
              > <artist>Hoobast ank</artist>
              > <album>The Reason</album>
              > <release>2004 </release>
              > <song title="The Reason" track="08">
              > I'm not a perfect person
              > As many things I wish I didn't do
              > But I continue learning
              > I never meant to do those things to you
              > And so I have to say before I go
              > That I just want you to know
              >
              > I've found a reason for me
              > To change who I used to be
              > A reason to start over new
              > And the reason is you
              > </song>
              ></data>
              >
              >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^XML File^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
              >
              >----------------------XSL File----------------
              >
              ><?xml version="1.0"?>
              ><xsl:styleshee t version="1.0"
              >xmlns:xsl="htt p://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
              ><xsl:templat e match="data">
              > <html>
              > <head>
              > <title>
              > <xsl:value-of select="artist"/> -
              ><xsl:value-of select="album"/>
              > </title>
              > </head>
              > <body bgcolor="#FFFFC C">
              > <table border="0" width="835" cellspacing="3"
              >cellpadding="2 ">
              > <tr>
              > <td align="center">
              > <font size="5"><i>
              > <xsl:value-of
              >select="artist "/> - <xsl:value-of select="album"/>
              > </i></font>
              > </td>
              > </tr>
              > <xsl:for-each select="song">
              > <xsl:sort select="./@track"/>
              > <tr>
              > <td>
              >
              ><xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
              > </td>
              > </tr>
              > </xsl:for-each>
              > </table>
              > </body>
              > </html>
              ></xsl:template>
              >
              ><xsl:templat e match="song">
              > <font size="4"><b>
              > <xsl:value-of select="@title"/>
              > </b></font>
              > <br/>
              > <xsl:value-of select="."/>
              > <p/>
              ></xsl:template>
              >
              ></xsl:stylesheet>
              >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^XSL File^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
              >[/color]

              --
              Richard Light
              SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
              richard@light.d emon.co.uk

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                • Steven
                  #5
                  Re: formatting text with XSLT

                  so there's no way to just have it displayed/copied exactly the way it's
                  typed in the XML?

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                    • Richard Light
                      #6
                      Re: formatting text with XSLT

                      In message <1112372096.998 115.110320@f14g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>,
                      Steven <steven.beckham @gmail.com> writes[color=blue]
                      >so there's no way to just have it displayed/copied exactly the way it's
                      >typed in the XML?[/color]

                      Remember you are outputting this to HTML, so you are stuck with what a
                      browser will do to your output. If there isn't, as a minimum, a <br/>
                      tag at the end of each line, it will simply render your lyrics as one
                      big paragraph.

                      It _is_ possible to write XSLT to convert newlines in your source to
                      <br/> tags in your output (there was a thread about this a day or two
                      back over in microsoft.publi c.xsl), but marking up the source sensibly
                      in the first place is (in my view) a much cleaner way of going about the
                      job.

                      Richard
                      --
                      Richard Light
                      SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
                      richard@light.d emon.co.uk

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                        • Martin Honnen
                          #7
                          Re: formatting text with XSLT



                          Steven wrote:
                          [color=blue]
                          > so there's no way to just have it displayed/copied exactly the way it's
                          > typed in the XML?[/color]

                          If you are transforming to HTML you can use the <pre> element e.g.

                          <xsl:template match="song">
                          <h2><xsl:valu e-of select="@title" /></h2>
                          <pre><xsl:val ue-of select="." /></pre>
                          </xsl:template>

                          --

                          Martin Honnen
                          Attention Required! | Cloudflare
                          http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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                            • Steven
                              #8
                              Re: formatting text with XSLT

                              hey, the <pre> tag did it! Thanks Martin and Richard. That's what I
                              needed, because I didn't want the lyrics marked up any more than they
                              were.

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