Re: Typeswitch Output Formatting

Peter Stadler <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:47:13 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.text.xml.exist
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Isn’t that the whitespace before and after the element <ExcludedDistributionChannel>?
You might try to apply your typeswitch function to only the child elements (not all nodes) of the <DealTerms>  and then reintroduce the indentation via serialization settings.

Cheers
Peter


> Am 18.08.2022 um 00:15 schrieb Adam Retter <[email protected]>:
> 
> I am not sure immediately why you get an extra line break. As an experiment if you replace "return ()" with "return text {}", do you see the same result?
> 
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, 03:53 Nick Sincaglia, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I have wrote a Typeswitch function in which I want to remove an XML tag if it is present.
> 
> My typeswitch function looks something like this:
> 
>     for $node in $nodes
>     return
>         typeswitch ($node)
>             (:Ignore text and comments:)
>             case text() return $node
>             case comment() return $node
>             case element(ExcludedDistributionChannel) return ()
>             default return my-typeswitch-transform:dispatch-recurse($node)
> 
> My input looks something like this:
> let $input :=
>         <DealTerms>
>           <TerritoryCode>AD</TerritoryCode>
>           <ExcludedDistributionChannel>
>             <PartyName>
>               <FullName>Adaptr</FullName>
>             </PartyName>
>           </ExcludedDistributionChannel>
>           <PriceInformation>
>             <PriceRangeType>Budget</PriceRangeType>
>           </PriceInformation>
>           <ValidityPeriod>
>             <StartDateTime>2022-12-01T02:35:00Z</StartDateTime>
>           </ValidityPeriod>
>         </DealTerms>
> 
> When I look at my output, I get this:
> 
> let $output :=
>         <DealTerms>
>           <TerritoryCode>AD</TerritoryCode>
> 
>           <PriceInformation>
>             <PriceRangeType>Budget</PriceRangeType>
>           </PriceInformation>
>           <ValidityPeriod>
>             <StartDateTime>2022-12-01T02:35:00Z</StartDateTime>
>           </ValidityPeriod>
>         </DealTerms>
> 
> Is there anything I can do to remove the new line character from the output, which the typeswitch function seems to add?
> 
> I know that this white space is inconsequential to the processing of this document but if I could remove it, I would like to.
> 
> Nick
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