[HIGH-I]

I'm trying to get an HTML <br> tag, embedded into an XSL variable and I'm not sure that it's possible.

In short, I have stylesheet1.xsl which performs a specific function. stylesheet1.xsl includes Language.xsl. Within Language.xsl are all of the text strings that stylesheet1 uses (the reason for this is that there are 45+ stylesheets, however only one needs to be modified to change the language of the entire package.)

Within Language.xsl, I would like to define a variable lit_QuantityReceived. Such as:

<xsl:variable name="lit_QuantityReceived">Quantity Received</xsl:variable>

However, I would like to insert an HTML break in between the two words, so my result from inserting "$lit_QuantityReceived" in HTML would be:

Quantity<br/>Received

I've tried quite a few options that don't work. &lt; doesn't work because the browser doesn't intepret that as the beginning of a tag, escaping a linefeed actually puts a line break in the HTML instead of a <br> tag, and I can't seem to find a single way to get a < or > symbol into my variable definition.

I've even referenced the xhtml DTD:

<br xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" />

which *does* work when you use it directly in a .xsl, but not when you embed it within the variable as I'm trying to do.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

[kingjr3]

I am not sure if you can store Document nodes as part of a value, so the next best thing is to apply a separate stylesheet template that will convert characters (in this case a space) to line breaks (<br/>)

heres an example of swapping a space for a break.

<xsl:template name="break">
<xslaram name="text" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, ' ')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, ' ')"/>
<br/>
<xsl:call-template name="break">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,' ')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

to apply this to a value just do this:

<xsl:call-template name="break">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$yourVariable"/>
</xsl:call-template>

[zkent]

Can you discuss the positive and negative effects of smileys in XML code?

Just kidding

Zach

[HIGH-I]

Thanks for the humor Zach.

[Alexandr]

hi high-1

I think you should try this

variable definition :
<xsl:variable name="lit_QuantityReceived"> Quantity &lt;br&gt;Received</xsl:variable>


output variable :

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$lit_QuantityReceived"/>