Re: line breaks in XML data

I assume you are generating HTML, and what you really mean is that where
there is a new line in the XML, you want the text to show on a new line in
the browser? For that, it's not enough for the XSLT to preserve the line
breaks, it needs to convert them into <br> elements.

Like many string manipulation tasks this one is easiest using 2.0:

<xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="\n">
  <xsl:matching-substring><br/></xsl:matching-substring>
</

But it's not too hard in 1.0: google for "XSLT replace newline BR".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gay [mailto:jgay@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 October 2005 21:40
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  line breaks in XML data

forgive my novice ineptitude.

I am working on a project where we would like to preserve
line breaks
that are entered into our XML database.

We are doing our XSL transformations with version 1.
If I use my XSLT to output/display this data into a <textarea>
element, the line breaks found in the database are there when
displayed.
If I output to a simple <p> element, the line breaks are gone.

How can I keep the formatting when using a <p>?
Can I use something like translate() to look for carriage return
characters?

I don't know what parser is being used for this application.

Thanks
-Jim