RE: [xsl] Generating CSV : Line feed and carriage return not working

["Allistair Crossley" <Allistair.Crossley@xxxxxxx>]

Hm. Well, I am doing all this server side and have set the mime type to text/plain. This has had some effect because some of the line breaks with <xsl:text>&#10;&#13;</xsl:text> are now working (albeit with loads of tab space). But not all are working which is odd.

The structure i have is

for each a
  print a
  print new line 1
  for each b in a
    print b
    print new line 2
  end for each
  print c
  print new line 3
  print d
  print new line 4
end for each

print new line 3 and 4 work and the rest do not. Baffled.




-----Original Message-----
From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 July 2003 12:00
To: Allistair Crossley
Subject: Re: [xsl] Generating CSV : Line feed and carriage return not
working


Hi Allistair,

> also ... why is it that with a servlet I can output control
> characters like
>
> \r\n
>
> and this works in IE.

When you do a server-side transformation, IE displays the results
according to the MIME type of the file that it sees. Probably the
servlet is reporting that the MIME type of the file that it's
generating is a text file.

When you serve an XML file with an <?xml-stylesheet?> PI in it, then
IE just assumes that the result is HTML; there's nothing that you can
do about that. If you did the transformation on the server, and
reported to IE that the MIME type of the result is text, then IE would
display it as text.

Cheers,

Jeni

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/



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