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Re: urgent - carriage return, line feed, xml data - urgent
hey david,
thanks.. i have just tried pre b4 reading this and it worked...
thanks..
TP
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] urgent - carriage return, line feed, xml data - urgent
>
> > I want to show the data as it is recieved from the data source.
> that is XSLT's default behaviour.
>
> > I tried <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/> and <xsl:preserve-space
> > elements="cell"/>. this did not work,
>
> That only affects white space nodes and the text child of your <cell>
> has non white space characters so these will have no effect.
>
> > is there an escape character for CRLF
> > or carriage return like I have put for the ampersand above.
>
> CR LF and CRLF pairs are all normalised to a single #10 character by XML
> parsers, if you use value-of in XSLT then these #10 line endings will be
> preserved.
>
> Perhaps you are looking at HTML in an HTML browser. The browser will of
> course render new lines as a single space character as is normal in HTML
> if you want spaces preserved you'll neeneed to set the relevant CSS
> properties or, simpler, place the result inside
> <pre>...</pre>
>
> David
>
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