Line Break Problem

nelly78 · August 19th, 2010, 08:13 AM

Hi All,

I want to add line break in the xslt but it not working.

Below is the code for adding the line break.

[code]

<xsl:variable name="Collection7">
<xsl:value-of select="$13932"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$31042"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>

<td><xsl:value-of select="$Collection7"/></td>

</code]

I have tried the below code as well:

<xsl:variable name="newline">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>
or
<xsl:variable name="break"><br></xsl:variable>
or

addign <br/>

then also it not adding the line break.

But If I write code like below then it is adding the line break and it works fine.

[code]

<td><xsl:value-of select="$13932"/><br/>
<xsl:value-of select="$31042"/>
</td>
</code]

But the above code I cannot use because there is some requirement, so for that I have to make collection of the values in the variable and then I have to use the Variable's value in the <TD>.

Any Help much appriciated.

Thanks
Nelly

Martin Honnen · August 19th, 2010, 08:17 AM

Code:

<xsl:variable name="Collection7">
  <xsl:value-of select="$Attr_4091_13932"/><br/>
  <xsl:value-of select="$Attr_7283_31042"/><br/>
</xsl:variable>
 
<td><xsl:copy-of select="$Collection7"/></td>

nelly78 · August 19th, 2010, 08:45 AM

Thank you very much Martin, Its works.

samjudson · August 19th, 2010, 09:41 AM

The reason for this is that <xsl:value-of> returns the textual content of a element or set of elements. <br/> is an empty br element with no text in it.

On the other hand <xsl:copy-of> copies the entire tree of the selected node or node-set, including the elements and text.

Code:

<xsl:variable name="test">
  <element>test</element>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:value-of select="$test"/> <!-- outputs "test" only -->
<xsl:copy-of select="$test"/> <!-- outputs "<element>test</element>" -->

Your first two example should have successfully outputted a line break, but if viewed in a browser this line break has no effect on the actual display of the text, as you have probably seen.

Code:

<p>This line has a 
   break in it.</p>
<p>This line has a <br/> line break element in it.</p>

when viewed in a browser will simply view as

Code:

This line has a break in it.
This line has a 
line break element in it.

mhkay · August 19th, 2010, 09:54 AM

The other part of the explanation, of course, is that HTML does not render a newline as a newline: all runs of whitespace in HTML are rendered as a single space. So putting a newline character in the HTML achieves nothing.