Re: urgent - carriage return, line feed, xml data - ur

> I want to show the data as it is recieved from the data source.
that is XSLT's default behaviour.

> I tried <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/> and <xsl:preserve-space 
> elements="cell"/>. this did not work,

That only affects white space nodes and the text child of your <cell>
has non white space characters so these will have no effect.

>  is there an escape character for CRLF 
> or carriage return like I have put for the ampersand above.

CR LF and CRLF pairs are all normalised to a single #10 character by XML
parsers, if you use value-of in XSLT then these #10 line endings will be
preserved. 

Perhaps you are looking at HTML in an HTML browser. The browser will of
course render new lines as a single space character as is normal in HTML
if you want spaces preserved you'll neeneed to set the relevant CSS
properties or, simpler, place the result inside
<pre>...</pre>

David

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