RE: [xsl] Preserving newline / multi-lines in element content

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think you will find that XSLT is preserving the newlines but the web
browser is throwing them away. Newlines in HTML are equivalent to
spaces. You either need to convert the newlines to <br> (for which there
are plenty of examples in the archives), or to wrap a <pre> element
around the text.

Michael Kay

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> Subject: [xsl] Preserving newline / multi-lines in element content
> 
> 
>  Hello,
> 
> I have an xml file which is generated from a web-interface 
> which allows the user to input a textfield containing newline 
> characters, i.e. multi-line text. So my xml file can have the 
> following type of content
> 
> <TEXT>the user can input
> more than one line
> in the multiline textfield</TEXT>
> 
> When I run an XSLT on this the new-lines are automatically 
> suppressed and I end up with one long line. The section of 
> xsl that I use to handle this
> is:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="TEXT"/>
> 
> Can someone tell me how to preserve the multiline aspect of 
> the original input, and the xml document resulting from that.
> 
> TIA / Colm
> 
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