Re: newlines in XSL Output

[Vasanth Kumar Kumarswamy <va...@wipro.com>]

Hi,

How to hardcode ascii characters (&)  in XSL,
In our case, it is required to present "&nbsp" in the HTML Document
during the XSL to HTML Conversion process.
Plz help us..

Regards
Vasanth

----- Original Message -----
From: <Sc...@lotus.com>
To: <xa...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: newlines in XSL Output


>
> You might send a small example that reproduces the problem.  Whitespace is
> not stripped from the source tree, so it sounds like something along the
> way is not processing it.
>
> To insert newlines from the stylesheet, a good technique is:
>
> <xsl:variable name="newline"><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text></xsl:variable>
> ...
>      <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
>
> This avoids having to hard-code the ascii character value into a character
> reference, and so is a little more platform independent.
>
> Note carefully whitespace stripping and preserving rules as spelled out by
> the XSLT specification, for both the source tree and the stylesheet.
These
> are a little hard to get down at first, but once you understand them,
> whitespace should give you very little trouble.
>
> -scott
>
>
>
>
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>                     "Haderer,
>                     Gregor, Dr."           To:
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>                     <Gregor.Haderer        cc:     (bcc: Scott
Boag/CAM/Lotus)
>                     @gedas.de>             Subject:     newlines in XSL
Output
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>                     11/21/00 07:58

>                     AM
>                     Please respond
>                     to xalan-dev
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>
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know how to put newline-characters at the and of  each line
> processed by Xalan. The inputfile has newlines and the result by default
> has
> not.
>
> Thanks
>                      Gregor Haderer
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