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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
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