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["Vasu Chakkera" <vasucv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Amanda..
The unicode symbol for tab is #x9;
so u have to use this for producing a tab in the output..
an example would be..
if your xml file is
<students>
<student>
<name>A.J.Nonameson</name>
<age>23</age>
<college>Best-college</college>
</student>
<student>
<name>P.J.Somenameson</name>
<age>23</age>
<college>Worst-college</college>
</student>
</students>
-----
and xsl would be
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="student">
<xsl:value-of select="name"/><xsl:text>&#x9;</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="age"/><xsl:text>&#x9;</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="college"/>
<xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
---
to produce a result..
A.J.Nonameson	23	Best-college
P.J.Somenameson	23	Worst-college
-----
The important things when dealing with text output  is..
1. <xsl:output> declaration...
 you should declare the method to be text and make sure you omit-xml-   
declaration
**  <xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> **
2. Unicode Symbols for characters like tab,newline,carraige return,   space 
etc..

 tab ---> #x9
 space ---->#x20
 newline --->#xa
 carraige return-->#xD
check up the above code to see how these are used ( u should use them with 
<xsl:text></xsl:text> ..as in <xsl:text>&#x9;</xsl:text> for tab
and <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> for a newline..

Hope this helps
Vasu







> >
> > Hello, List,
> > I have been asked to add a feature to our web application that will
> > transform our XML into tab-delimited text data, displayed in a
> > new window,
> > so that the user can then save it for later use in that
> > format.  Unfortunately, I am currently limited to what can be done with
> > MSXML 2.5 (been told we have to support IE5 without any upgrades to the
> > parser).
> >
> > Although I've done a lot of XML-to-XML and XML-to-HTML transformations,
> > I've never done XML-to-text before.  Can anyone direct me on how I would
> > (a) cause tabs to appear in the output, and (b) cause linebreaks
> > to appear
> > in the output?

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