Subject: [xsl] disappearing line breaks within an element From: "cavecatem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cavecatem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:03:06 |
Dear List, I've been struggeling with an entity problem all day, and the things I tried didn't work out. I'm working with Saxxon 8B and XSLT 2.0. I have an imput file wich contains XML-output from a sybase database. Long text fields may contain line breaks which appear in the XML as 
 Example: <UserField Type="longtext" Name="some name">I'm a veeery long text.I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in some text.
I'm a veeery long text in .I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in .


I'm a veeery long text in .I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in.</UserField> When I transform the XML to HTML, they just dissappear. I searched in the mailing list archive and I seem to have understood that when the file is parsed, the 
 becomes a line break. I suppose this is why I fail with the following tokenization? <xsl:for-each select="fn:tokenize(.,'
' )"> <xsl:if test="(fn:string-length(fn:normalize-space (.)) > 0)"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> <br/> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> If so, how do I do this? I also tried using a character map, but still it does not work out. <xsl:character-map name="break"> <xsl:output-character character=" " string="&nbsp;" /> <xsl:output-character character="
" string="<br/>"/> </xsl:character-map> Someone mentioned that with XSLT 2.0 there was a way to convert the parsed entity back to an entity, but I didn't understand how and where I would have to do that. Could someone explain or point me to a book? I tried with Frank Bongers' but unfortunately, I haven't found anything dealing with line break codes within an element (the ebook-Version my library provides has no bookmarks or cross-references which makes it rather unwildy, so maybe I failed to find it). I'd appreaciate any help (and will remember to send my thanks to the list address and not the digest address as happend last time ;-) Regards CJ
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