Re: [xsl] Transforming XML to HTML - preserving line breaks

["Mike Haarman" <mhaarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/replace.html

hth,

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Bailin" <ABAILIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: [xsl] Transforming XML to HTML - preserving line breaks


> 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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