[xquery-talk] XML to TEXT OUTPUT with xQUERY

[Michael Kay]

It's a little bit product-dependent how the output of a query is produced.

There are basically two approaches. One is to write a query whose output 
is a single string (your query produces a sequence of strings). The 
other is to serialize the result of the query using the text output 
method - which, for example, would take a sequence of strings and output 
them space-separated.

Either way, generating new line characters shouldn't be a problem. Just 
write them in the query as numeric character references - & # x a ;

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 03/12/2010 09:20, Julio de la Vega wrote:
>
> Hi *,
>
> I need to process and xml file with xQuery and generate a text file 
> with the result of my xquery. In my tests I have several issues:
>
> -Do I have to do it with string function or is there other option?
>
> -I need to give an specific format to the output but I cannot control 
> line feeds. Is it possible to insert  line feed with any command?
>
> -Do we have to use xslt instead of xquery? Is there any option to do 
> it with xquery?
>
> Little example ot the actual development:
>
> for $metadata  in doc('Estadisticas')/MetaData
>
> return
>
> (
>
> string($metadata/Partition/Attr[@name= 
> 'CurrentPackageInPartition']/@value),
>
> string($metadata/Partition/Attr[@name= 'TotalPagesinDocument']/@value),
>
> )
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
>
> **
>
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