[xquery-talk] Whitespace problem in CSV-like output

[John Snelson]

Yves Forkl wrote:
> It is a bit disappointing to see that XQuery does not offer a simple, 
> general method to create CSV-type files, at least not in my case.

What would be simpler than what you have written here?

> NB: While the names of the functions seem to suggest that the line feed 
> should rather be appended in my:join-records-into-lines than in 
> my:join-fields-into-record, I don't see any easy way to do this.

Redefine your functions like this:

declare function my:join-fields-into-record
   ( $fields as xs:string*,
     $delimiter as xs:string ) as xs:string {
       string-join($fields, $delimiter)
} ;
declare function my:join-records-into-lines
   ( $records as xs:string* ) as xs:string {
       string-join($records, "
")
} ;

John

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