Re: New line characters to </br> element.

Hi Jakub,

> I have problem with displaying of text, which contain new line
> characters, when I transcode XSL to HTML. I guess that it is more
> problem of HTM than of XSL. So, HTML cuts these characters and
> represent theme as a space. But, I think, that there could by some
> way how to translate newline characters to for example </br>
> element. Is there any way? Or, does anybody know any other solution?

You could try using the CSS 'white-space' property set to 'pre', e.g.:

  <p style="white-space: pre;">
     ...
  </p>

but you might not get much joy because browsers can legally ignore the
property.

The other option is to replace all the line breaks (i.e. &#xA;
characters) in the text with 'br' elements) using a recursive named
template like:

<xsl:template name="add-line-breaks">
   <xsl:param name="string" select="." />
   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="contains($string, '&#xA;')">
         <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string, '&#xA;')" />
         <br />
         <xsl:call-template name="add-line-breaks">
            <xsl:with-param name="string"
                            select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
         </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:value-of select="$string" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

You can call this template as appropriate with the $string parameter
being passed the value of the string that you want to perform the
replacement on.

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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http://www.jenitennison.com/



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