Re: [xsl] Data from DB in xsl

["Noel Golding" <noel at spearreport dot com>]

If you want the HTML to automatically wrap, and you want to maintain the
paragraph breaks,  you will probably need to do a replace function. see the
link below.  More than likely if you replace \n with <br><br> this should
give you the desired result.

http://www.exslt.org/regexp/functions/replace/


Noel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevenson Ngila" <Stevenson@epr.footman-walker.com>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: RE: [xsl] Data from DB in xsl


> yes but it disfigures my page by increasing the width because the text
> doesn't wrap.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Noel Golding
> Sent: 28 August 2002 15:38
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Data from DB in xsl
>
>
> have you tried
>
> <td valign="top" class="paragraph">
>     <pre><xsl:value-of select="description"/></pre>
> </td>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stevenson Ngila" <Stevenson@epr.footman-walker.com>
> To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:13 AM
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Data from DB in xsl
>
>
> > i have tried:
> >
> > <td valign="top" class="paragraph"> <xsl:value-of
> > select="description"/></td>
> >
> > where "paragraph" is a css property containing:
> >
> > .paragraph {
> > white-space: pre;
> >
> > }
> >
> > and "description" is the xml value that contains text from the DB but
> still
> > doesn't work.
> >
> > Any more ideas please??
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> > Jarno.Elovirta@nokia.com
> > Sent: 28 August 2002 13:19
> > To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > Subject: RE: [xsl] Data from DB in xsl
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I have an intranet which user add data ot it using form, and
> > > it's saved in
> > > the SQL 2000 DB. If the user put a paragraph in this form and
> > > saves it in
> > > the DB, how can this data be displayed using xml/xslt so that
> > > it appears
> > > exactly th way the user input it i.e. with paragraphs?
> >
> > Add
> >
> >   white-space: pre;
> >
> > CSS property to the element that contains the text.
> >
> > Jarno
> >
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> >
> >
> >
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