Hi
i am displaying a string in a table cell ... here i am formatting the string so that it will display in two lines in the table cell
i am appending '&lt;br&gt;' in the middle of the string but it is becoming 'string<br>string' in html
i want it to show up in two lines
please help me out
thank you

XSLT creates HTML in the form of a result tree; the processor then looks after the job of serializing this as textual HTML (in fact, some browsers do the rendering directing from the tree, never creating the textual HTML as an intermediate form).

So you need to write a BR element, not the four characters "<BR>". The way you do that is to write <BR/> in your stylesheet.

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

I am having the same issue as dharus, and while I understand you want to write <BR/> in the stylesheet I am having issues getting it written. My starting point is text from an XML document that can have zero or more newlines. If present, the newlines will be in random locations.

My best solution at this point is a javascript function that finds and replaces each newline in the string. The find and replace works, but the output is always in the form '&lt;br&gt;'. The function is one I found on the Web and is enclosed in a CDATA section which I don't believe is what I want, but I get exceptions from the .NET parser when I try to remove the CDATA section.

Any thoughts?

I can't tell you what's wrong with your code if you don't show me your code, and in any case the interface to external languages like Javascript is very processor-dependent. I imagine your javascript was returning the string of four characters "<br>" rather than returning an element node; although it would be legal for a processor to interpret that as markup (as I say, it's all processor-dependent) I think it's more likely to be interpreted as text.

A quick google gives you working XSLT 1.0 code here:

http://www.xslt.com/html/xsl-list/2002-03/msg01000.html

It's much easier in 2.0, of course.

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

Thanks for the link. My searches did not find this information. I dumped the javascript for the template and my transform works.

Yes, I need to learn 2.0. Time to get Saxon for .NET and buy your book...

Regards,

Rich