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Stylesheet Tips

March 12, 2026 02:13 AM
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  • Displaying a non-breaking white space

    To display a non-breaking white space, use the <xsl:text> tag.

    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

    Or this: &#160;

  • Displaying the formatted text property

    To display formatted text (the marked-up text) property value in XSLT, use the disable-output-escaping attribute with the <xsl:value-of> tag. The marked-up text for the formatted text property is a complete HTML document and only the content for the BODY tag is required.

    <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes” select=".//BODY/*"/>

  • Displaying nested tables for relationships

    To display the relationship Items for nested tables, reduce the XPath to the relative path based on the context node for the <xsl:for-each> loop that the nested relationships table is in.

    <xsl:for-each select="Relationships/Item">

    <xsl:for-each select="related_id/Item/Relationships/Item">

    </xsl:for-each>

    </xsl:for-each>

  • Resizing the Report window

    To resize the report window, add an onload callback function for the HTML page. Add the following code before the <body> tag:

    <script>
    onload = function()
    {
    top.window.resizeTo(800,600);
    }
    </script>

  • Showing a different value based on the value for a property

    To show a different value in the Report based on the actual value of the property. For example, the actual value of the property is the hex number for a color, but you want to show the name of the color in text.

    <xsl:choose>

    <xsl:when test="mgr_opinion='#FF0000'">Red</xsl:when>

    <xsl:when test="mgr_opinion='#FFFF00'">Yellow</xsl:when>

    <xsl:when test="mgr_opinion='#00FF00'">Green</xsl:when>

    </xsl:choose>

  • Supporting European languages

    To show the results in a European language:

    • Set the encoding attribute for the root xml tag:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

    • Set the encoding attribute for the output tag:
      <xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-1" method="html”
      omit-xml-declaration="yes” standalone="yes” indent="yes” />