XML not doing linebreaks?

Stabby McTwist · 12-11-2006, 12:02 AM

How can I get an XML+XSL page to do linebreaks? I've tried replacing \n with <br /> (via php) and it still doesn't do anything. The XML file itself shows the linebreaks, but displayed in the browser it does not.

bigearsbilly · 12-11-2006, 05:02 AM

don't get it, which browser? The browser will render as it sees fit
irrespective of linebreaks or no in the XML.

do you mean in your raw XML? How to do it in XSL?

If you just want indenting put this in your XSL stylesheet:

Code:

   <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>

or a new line:

Code:

<!-- new line -->
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

Stabby McTwist · 12-11-2006, 11:21 AM

The raw XML data shows up just fine with linebreaks, but when the stylesheet is put on it, they all disappear and it becomes one big block of text. Even if I put <br />'s in where I need new lines. I'm using Firefox 2.0.

OH! The browser is reading <br /> as an XML tag and ignoring it as far as HTML goes. Is there a way around this?

bigearsbilly · 12-12-2006, 03:15 AM

did you try my suggestions?

Stabby McTwist · 12-12-2006, 05:48 PM

Using the xsl

utput indent does nothing. The xsl:text thing gives me a parser error and apparently is designed to be used on hard-coded text as opposed to xml data.

bigearsbilly · 12-13-2006, 02:20 AM

they both work for me in sylesheets.

maybe your XSLT engine is rubbish.
I use saxon.
an example would help

Stabby McTwist · 12-15-2006, 09:14 AM

I'm really not sure what XSLT engine I have.

Code:

<root>
<text>
blah blah

blah blah
</text>
</root>

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="text" />

That yields "blah blahblah blah".

bigearsbilly · 12-15-2006, 09:27 AM

CUT
see next reply

bigearsbilly · 12-15-2006, 09:41 AM

Hmm works for me ?

Code:

 

billy-$ cat 1.xml 
<root>
<text>
blah blah

blah blah
</text>
</root>

Code:

billy-$ cat 1.xsl

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0"
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">


<xsl:output method="text"/>


<xsl:template match="/root">

    <xsl:value-of select="text" />

</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>

Code:

billy-$ xt 1.xml 1.xsl
blah blah

blah blah
billy-$

(FYI xt is an alias for a long java saxon command
xt='java -Xmx512M -jar /export/home/billym/app/saxon/saxon7.jar')

bigearsbilly · 12-15-2006, 09:49 AM

if you are talking about how it looks in a browser, then that's down to the browser.

ronald-be · 01-13-2007, 11:16 AM

hello,

The xsl:text is indeed intended for hard-coded text. A blank <xsl:text></xsl:text> could solve the problem but is considered as not a good practice : you could get problems with handling of orphans and widows and, generally, the whole page-layout. The best thing remains to put it in a separate paragraph. Try to structure your document as detailed as possible.

Greetings,

Ronald