[xsl] Transforming XML to HTML - preserving line breaks

["Adam Bailin" <ABAILIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having difficulty dealing with text spread over several lines in an XML doc such as:

<info>
 This is some information.

 This is paragraph number two.

 There may be any number of paragraphs in this element.
</info>

I want to transform this into the following HTML:

<td>
 This is some information.<br/><br/>This is paragraph number two.<br/><br/>There may be any number of paragraphs in this element.
</td>

I am using a standard string replace template which is successfully replacing line breaks but if I use <br/> as the replacement string, it gets ignored. If I use <xsl:text><br/></xsl:text> I get the error message, "br is not allowed in this position in the stylesheet".

Here is the code:

<xsl:call-template name="replace-substring">
 <xsl:with-param name="original" select="oir:SETTINFO"></xsl:with-param>
 <xsl:with-param name="substring">&cr;</xsl:with-param>
 <xsl:with-param name="replacement"><xsl:text><br /></xsl:text></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>

where &cr; is declared: <!ENTITY cr "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>">

I am using the latest xalan processor.

Does anyone know how to get round this?

Adam Bailin
Web Developer
Ofsted
Tel: 020 7421 5977



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