Blank lines

[DAnne]

Hi,

I have checked your archives but have not been able to find anything that works for my situation. I have a for loop that brings back a list of unique responses for each section in a report. These responses are responses to each question in a particular section.
This is working fine. However the output prints many blank lines. I have determined that these lines are are actually places where the question had the same response as a previous question but where I only want unique responses these duplicates do not print. I need to remove these blank lines but I couldn't find anything that would work.

This is the part of the code in my stylesheet that returns the unique responses with the blank lines:

<!--Gets responses-->
<xsl:template match="node()" name="getResponses">
   <xsl:param name="resp" select="." />
       <xsl:for-each select="audit_response/resp[1][not(.=preceding::audit_response/resp[1])] | audit_response/resp[1][not(.=following::audit_response/resp[1])]">
         <xsl:variable name="resps" select="."/>
        <xsl:value-of select="$resps"/> 
       </xsl:for-each>
 
 </xsl:template>
 
 <!--brings back unique responses -->
                  <fo:table-row>
                   <fo:table-cell>
                    <fo:block font="Arial" text-align="left" font-size="8pt" font-weight="normal" space-after="2px">
                        <fo:inline font-weight="bold">
                       <xsl:call-template name="getResponses">
                        <xsl:with-param name="resp" select="../audit_response/resp" />
                       </xsl:call-template>
                      </fo:inline>                                   
                    </fo:block>                            
                   </fo:table-cell>

The XML document is very long so I will give a snippet of it here.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
- <report>
- <audit>
  <auditid>159</auditid> 
  <auditlevel_id>21</auditlevel_id> 
  <levelstring>AUDIT LIBRARY</levelstring> 
  <auditname>Cory</auditname> 
  <cust_id>2</cust_id> 
  <ld>1</ld> 
  <li>8</li> 
- <questions>
- <question>
  <id>13756</id> 
  <sec_id>0</sec_id> 
  <sub_sec_id>0</sub_sec_id> 
  <item_id>0</item_id> 
  <questiontype>Header</questiontype> 
  <resp_num>1</resp_num> 
  <itemdescription>Cory</itemdescription> 
  <possible_score>10.00</possible_score> 
  <score_criteria /> 
  <udf_info /> 
- <audit_response>
  <id>13389</id> 
  <questionid>13756</questionid> 
  <resp /> 
  <narr /> 
  <score>.00</score> 
  <p_o>0</p_o> 
  <n_o>0</n_o> 
  <p_f>0</p_f> 
  <n_f>0</n_f> 
  <answered>0</answered> 
  <udf_info /> 
  <corr_acts /> 
  </audit_response>
  </question>
- <question>
  <id>13757</id> 
  <sec_id>1</sec_id> 
  <sub_sec_id>0</sub_sec_id> 
  <item_id>0</item_id> 
  <questiontype>Header</questiontype> 
  <resp_num>1</resp_num> 
  <itemdescription>Section 1 - Enter section 1 description.</itemdescription> 
  <possible_score>10.00</possible_score> 
  <score_criteria /> 
  <udf_info /> 
- <audit_response>
  <id>13390</id> 
  <questionid>13757</questionid> 
  <resp /> 
  <narr /> 
  <score>.00</score> 
  <p_o>0</p_o> 
  <n_o>0</n_o> 
  <p_f>0</p_f> 
  <n_f>0</n_f> 
  <answered>0</answered> 
  <udf_info /> 
  <corr_acts /> 
  </audit_response>
  </question>
- <question>
  <id>13758</id> 
  <sec_id>1</sec_id> 
  <sub_sec_id>1</sub_sec_id> 
  <item_id>0</item_id> 
  <questiontype>Header</questiontype> 
  <resp_num>1</resp_num> 
  <itemdescription>Section 1, SubSection 1 - Enter section 1, subsection 1 description.</itemdescription> 
  <possible_score>10.00</possible_score> 
  <score_criteria /> 
  <udf_info /> 
- <audit_response>
  <id>13391</id> 
  <questionid>13758</questionid> 
  <resp /> 
  <narr /> 
  <score>.00</score> 
  <p_o>0</p_o> 
  <n_o>0</n_o> 
  <p_f>0</p_f> 
  <n_f>0</n_f> 
  <answered>0</answered> 
  <udf_info /> 
  <corr_acts /> 
  </audit_response>
  </question>

My report looks like this:

1-0-0 section

this is a unique response (No)



this is another unique response (Yes)

1-2-0 new section





this is a unique response for this section (Yes)



You can imagine the amount of blank lines that result in a large report. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[DAnne]

Hi,

A quick note to let you know I figured this out. Unbelievably stupid error :-)
The code to bring back the unique responses was in a table row. The adjacent cell which did a count on each unique response had a space-after property set to 5px. I removed this and it was smooth sailing.
I appreciate your help.