[xsl] XML->XSL-> FO->PDF whitespace problems

[Michael Engelhart <mengelhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've spent the last few hours searching the archives of this list and a 
few others and can't find what I'm looking for.

I am using FOP 0.20.3, Xalan 2.2 to do XML->PDF transforms.  I have an 
element that is preformatted legacy text.  It's got tabs and spaces and 
linefeed/carriage returns.    I want to output this in the PDF in the 
same format.

Here's a sample:

	NAME
	ADDRESS
	CITY, STATE, ZIP
		BEGIN PARAGRAPH

		BEGIN SECOND PARAGRAPH
			BEGIN SUBPARAGRAPH

Now the reason I'm posting to this list is that I can take a xsl:fo file 
and transform the text if I copy and paste it into the FO document and 
then run FOP on it.  The PDF that is generated is formatted perfectly.   
But when I do the transform to FO dynamically with XSL, it removes all 
the carriage returns/line feeds.

Here's the XSL that I'm using for the element:

<xsl:template match="LegacyTextData">
      <fo:block font-size="9pt"
                font-family="Courier"
                line-height="12pt"
                text-align="left"
                white-space-collapse="false">
			<xsl:text>       </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="." />
	</fo:block>
</xsl:template>


I can't use linefeed-treatment property since FOP doesn't support it. 
but the real  issue I'm having trouble with is that it appears that 
Xalan is stripping out the linefeeds which I thought the XSLT processor 
isn't supposed to do.

I have also tried using xml:space="preserve" in the LegacyTextData 
element which did nothing, I also added the disable-output-
escaping="yes" to the <xsl:value-of /> statement.

any tips on what's going on would be appreciated.


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