ASCII formatting

Ninjazx9r · June 23rd, 2004, 06:15 AM

Hi,

I have an XML file with some fairly large textual paragraphs typed in by a user - so it has formatting in it like indentation via tabs and spaces.

For example :-

"This procedure has two parts :-

1. Start
2. End"

Comes out as a single concatenated string post transformation :-

"This procedure has two parts :- 1. Start 2. End"

I have developed the xml to the point where if I open it up and view the source I can see the paragraphs have all their formatting intact.
I'm sure my document tree structure is fine. But when transforming via the XSLT stylesheet the formatting is lost.

The data originates from an access database Memo field and the XML document is generated via MSXML and VBA.

Following a suggestion from another forum I put the data in a CDATA section - XSLT completed ignored this. I have "preserve space" and "output" elements in the xslt stylesheet.

So can anyone help ?

I am getting quite frustrated with this as it is my first foray into XML and XSLT and it was going along so well. Deadline is now approaching fast and it appears I've reached some sort of impasse.

Cheers.

barcher · July 1st, 2004, 08:13 AM

Presumably you are viewing the output in a browser?
If so, it's the browser removing the formatting...

Try outputting between <pre> tags,

eg.
<html>
  ...
  <pre>
     <xsl:value-of select="mynode/text()" />
  </pre>
  ..
</html>

smirkin_lad · October 22nd, 2006, 03:31 PM

Hi,

Great help dude.
I was really looking for this code

Thanks a Million