Re: XML->XSL-> FO->PDF whitespace problems

>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:35:31 +0000
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re:  XML->XSL-> FO->PDF whitespace problems
>
>At 2002-03-08 17:50 -0500, Michael Engelhart wrote:
>>Thanks - but, that still didn't do it.
>
>It happened this question was asked recently on an XSLFO list:
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>>Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 12:13:50 -0500
>>Subject: Re: [XSL-FO] <PRE> facility in FO
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>>At 2002-03-06 16:38 +0000, jelemair wrote:
>> >I'm looking for a way to include some preformated text in FO.
>> >
>> >I've got a an xml file in which I've include some text with some
>> >spaces an CR that I select in my XSL FO file.
>> >
>> >If I do:
>> >
>> ><fo:block>
>> ><xsl:value-of select="myFormatedText">
>> ></fo:block>
>> >It keeps spaces but not the carriage returns.
>> >
>> >Is there a way to do that ??
>>
>>Try the following:
>>
>>    <fo:block font-family="Courier"
>>              linefeed-treatment="preserve"
>>              white-space-collapse="false"
>>              white-space-treatment="preserve">
>>       ... text ...
>>    </fo:block>
>>
>>font-family - a monospaced font of some kind is typical
>>linefeed-treatment - so the linefeed is not treated as a space
>>white-space-collapse - so the white-space sequences are not collapsed
>>white-space-treatment - so those around linefeeds are not ignored
>>
>>I hope this helps.
>>
>>.......................... Ken
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