Question

xslt have function(like substring vice versa) or how to solve it? I had xml:

<document>
<Line>
    <Line-Item>
        <LineNumber>10</LineNumber>
        <EAN>111</EAN>
        <BIC>123123</BIC>
        <SIC>AVD091</SIC>
    </Line-Item>
</Line>
<Line>
    <Line-Item>
        <LineNumber>20</LineNumber>
        <EAN>22222</EAN>
        <BIC>3232332</BIC>
        <SIC>AVD25482</SIC>
    </Line-Item>
</Line>
</document>

needed output:

10        111     123123      AVD091
20        22222   3232332     AVD25482

Field line number start from 1 column position, EAN start from 11 column position, BIC start from 19 and SIC from 31.

Answer 1

Try this XSLT 1.0 style-sheet. The pad template is an XSLT 1.0 version of Martin’s mf:pad function.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="document/Line/Line-Item"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="pad">
  <xsl:param name="value" />
  <xsl:param name="width" />
  <xsl:variable name="col-max" select="'                    '"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring( concat($value,$col-max), 1, $width)" /> 
</xsl:template>  

<xsl:template match="Line-Item" >

 <xsl:call-template name="pad" >
  <xsl:with-param name="value" select="LineNumber"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="width" select="10" />
 </xsl:call-template>  

 <xsl:call-template name="pad" >
  <xsl:with-param name="value" select="EAN"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="width" select="8" />
 </xsl:call-template>  

 <xsl:call-template name="pad" >
  <xsl:with-param name="value" select="BIC"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="width" select="12" />
 </xsl:call-template>  

 <xsl:value-of select="SIC" /> 

 <xsl:value-of select="'&#x0A;'" />
</xsl:template>  

<xsl:template match="*" />
</xsl:stylesheet>