RE: output of cdata within xsl:value-of select

The CDATA section is irrelevant. CDATA only changes the meaning of
special characters like "<", and there are no such characters in your
CDATA section.

Your problem is an HTML problem. A newline in an HTML document is not
rendered as a newline. You have to replace the newlines with <br/>, or
output the text in a <pre> element.

For replacing newlines with <br/>, see the FAQ.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Natarajan, Chokkalingam
> Sent: 02 December 2002 16:54
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  output of cdata within xsl:value-of select
> 
> 
> Folks,  I have a question with regards to output of CDATA 
> value within a xsl:value-of select in a XSL file. I have an 
> XML data coming to an XSL file as a data stream and the XSL 
> contains the format in which the XSL should be displayed.
> 
> The fragment of code in my XML file is:
> 
> <TGMSG><![CDATA[This is a test message, hopefully this will go through
> 	line2
> 	line3
> 	line4
> 	line5
> 	line6 end.]]>
> </TGMSG>
> 
> There are line breaks (carriage returns) within the CDATA 
> section. This will pass through without any hassle while XML parsing.
> 
> The fragment of code in my XSL file is: 
> 
> Your Message is: <br/>
> <xsl:value-of select="TGMSG"/><br/>
> 
> But when I pass the above XML data input to the XSL file, the 
> output comes in without the line breaks. Like this:
> 
> This is a test message, hopefully this will go through line2 
> line3 line4 line5 line6 end.
> 
> But I want the output to come out like this (in other words, 
> I want to preserve the carriage returns / line breaks that I 
> get within the CDATA, and print them out using my XSL file):
> 
> This is a test message, hopefully this will go through 
> line2 
> line3 
> line4 
> line5 
> line6 end.
> 
> What should I do to achieve this? I need to perform this only 
> by modifying the XSL file. If anyone has encountered this 
> before or know the solution, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
> 
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