Question

I am having a xml file as:

<Order>
  <EP>
  <Name>Generation Date</Name>
  <Value>2009-08-04+05:30</Value>
  </EP>
  <EP>
  <Name>NoOfRecords</Name>
  <Value>100</Value>
  </EP>
 <OrderLineItems>
   <OrderLineItem OrderDateTime="2007-01-01T17:09:04.593+05:30>
   <Customer>
      <FullName>Mrs S </FulName>
   <Address>
     <AddressLine1>ABC</AddressLine1>
     <AddressLine2>XYZ</AddressLine2>
   </Address>
   </Customer>
   <EP>
      <Name>DealerAccount</Name>
      <Value>00000000000</Value>
   </EP>
 </OrderLineItem>
 </OrderLineItems>
</Order>

Where the OrderLineItem tag is repeating. Now I want to convert this xml to a text file using xslt. The format of flat file is fixed and it’s as follows:

00000000000010107     Mrs S       ABC  XYZ 
00000000000150709     Mr x        PQR  TWR

where the first column contains the Dealeraccount and orderDate(time removed) second field is name and third and fourth field are addressline 1 and addressline2 respectively.
Please note that the formatting of text file is must and I am also having the length of each field such as length of name is varchar2(50) and so on.

Answer 1

Well finally i got it..here is the solution

<xsl:template name="ColumnSeparator">
        <xsl:param name="count" select="1"/>
        <xsl:param name="separator" select="' '"/>
        <xsl:if test="$count > 0">
            <xsl:value-of select="$separator"/>
            <xsl:call-template name="ColumnSeparator">
                <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count - 1"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

And then simply call this template using:

<xsl:call-template name="ColumnSeparator">
                <xsl:with-param name="count" select="50-string-length(Customer/FullName)"/>
            </xsl:call-template>