Re: [Exist-open] Typeswitch Output Formatting

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

I am not sure immediately why you get an extra line break. As an experiment
if you replace "return ()" with "return text {}", do you see the same
result?

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, 03:53 Nick Sincaglia, <nsi...@nu...> wrote:

> I have wrote a Typeswitch function in which I want to remove an XML tag if
> it is present.
>
> My typeswitch function looks something like this:
>
>     for $node in $nodes
>     return
>         typeswitch ($node)
>             (:Ignore text and comments:)
>             case text() return $node
>             case comment() return $node
>             case element(ExcludedDistributionChannel) return ()
>             default return my-typeswitch-transform:dispatch-recurse($node)
>
> My input looks something like this:
> let $input :=
>         <DealTerms>
>           <TerritoryCode>AD</TerritoryCode>
> *          <ExcludedDistributionChannel>*
> *            <PartyName>*
> *              <FullName>Adaptr</FullName>*
> *            </PartyName>*
> *          </ExcludedDistributionChannel>*
>           <PriceInformation>
>             <PriceRangeType>Budget</PriceRangeType>
>           </PriceInformation>
>           <ValidityPeriod>
>             <StartDateTime>2022-12-01T02:35:00Z</StartDateTime>
>           </ValidityPeriod>
>         </DealTerms>
>
> When I look at my output, I get this:
>
> let $output :=
>         <DealTerms>
>           <TerritoryCode>AD</TerritoryCode>
>
>           <PriceInformation>
>             <PriceRangeType>Budget</PriceRangeType>
>           </PriceInformation>
>           <ValidityPeriod>
>             <StartDateTime>2022-12-01T02:35:00Z</StartDateTime>
>           </ValidityPeriod>
>         </DealTerms>
>
> Is there anything I can do to remove the new line character from the
> output, which the typeswitch function seems to add?
>
> I know that this white space is inconsequential to the processing of this
> document but if I could remove it, I would like to.
>
> Nick
>
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