Inserting Line Breaks in XSL?

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July 7th, 2003, 11:50 AM

jbregar

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Inserting Line Breaks in XSL?

I'm developing an XSL to transform XML data into a text format. I need to force it to insert line breaks, but it's not working. No matter how many line breaks I insert it doesn't help.

This would be between two tags. Is there a way to force XSLT to insert a line break between two tags without putting text in there?

jb.

July 23rd, 2003, 11:01 AM

mrusaw

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This will work for you:

Code:

<xsl:template match="Element" attr1="blah" attr2="blah">
   <xsl:value-of select="ChildA"/>
   <xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="ChildB"/><xsl:text> 
   <xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="ChildC_etc..."/><xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

July 24th, 2003, 01:08 AM

Wizard2003

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I had the same problem and I found a solution.
I don't know if it is the best but it works.
I define a variable:

Code:

<xsl:variable name="newline">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>

This variable you could you in your program.
e.g.:

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="$newline"> <!-- line break in output file -->

May 5th, 2011, 11:17 AM

xml-profi

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you can also use

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="concat(.,'&#xA;')"/>

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December 29th, 2011, 11:30 AM

pj.de.bruin

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This seems most appropriate:

Code:

<xsl:text xml:space="preserve">
</xsl:text>

Code:

<xsl:text xml:space="preserve">& #10;</xsl:text>

(without the space of course, but DevShed's forum engine doesn't allow me to show that)

Inserting Line Breaks in XSL?

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