Hello.
I'm converting an XML into HTML. I have this element in XML:
___________________________________
<glossary>
RVA Recorded Voice Announcement
TCP Transport Control Protocol
QOS Quality Of Service
</description>
___________________________________

Then, when I naively try to to put it in my resulting HTML...

<xsl:value-of select="./glossary"/>

I get this ugly result:

____________________________________
Glossary:
RVA Recorded Voice Announcement TCP Transport Control Protocol QOS Quality Of Service
____________________________________
Carriage returns and some spaces have disappeared.

I'm not sure if the problem is in the XML, or the XSL transformation. Do I have to include something in the XML for not losing the carriage return? Or maybe in the XSL?

Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't find out by myself...

Thanks

The problem isn't with XML or with your XSLT, it is with HTML. In HTML, multiple whitespace characters are considered equivalent to a single space and are displayed as such by the browser. The simplest way out of this is to wrap the output in a <pre> element.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference