Question

i need to insert values of several elements into one cdata… here is my code:

first, i made output:

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" intend="yes" cdata-section-elements="embassy" />

and here is element definition:

<xsl:element name="embassy">
  <xsl:value-of select="Visa/visa_velv/visa_velv_name" />
  <xsl:element name="br" />
  <xsl:value-of select="Visa/visa_velv/visa_velv_address" />
  <xsl:element name="br" />
  <xsl:value-of select="Visa/visa_velv/visa_velv_city" />
</xsl:element>

and here is bad output for my need:

<embassy><![CDATA[Ambasada e Republikes se Cekise]]>
  <br/><![CDATA[Rruga Skënderbej 10]]>
  <br/><![CDATA[Tirana]]>            
</embassy>

i need this output:

<embassy>
  <![CDATA[Ambasada e Republikes se Cekise<br/>Rruga Skënderbej 10<br/>Tirana]]>
</embassy>

i was reading documentation but i can’t find solution. thanks for helping 🙂

Answer 1

This complete and simple transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" cdata-section-elements="Embassy"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="visa_velv">
     <Embassy>
       <xsl:value-of select=
       "concat(visa_velv_name,'&lt;br/>',visa_velv_address,'&lt;br/>',visa_velv_city)"/>
     </Embassy>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied on the folowing XML document:

<Visa>
 <visa_velv>
   <visa_velv_name>Ambasada e Republikes se Cekise</visa_velv_name>
   <visa_velv_address>Rruga Skënderbej 10</visa_velv_address>
   <visa_velv_city>Tirana</visa_velv_city>
 </visa_velv>
</Visa>

produces the wanted result:

<Embassy><![CDATA[Ambasada e Republikes se Cekise<br/>Rruga Skënderbej 10<br/>Tirana]]></Embassy>