adding a newline at the end of each element

ehsansad · October 20th, 2010, 09:55 AM

Hello,

Is it possible to force the output of a xslt to include a newline after each element? besides the

Code:

<xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>

don't want to add this after each <xsl:element>, there are too many.

regards,
Ehsan

mhkay · October 20th, 2010, 10:25 AM

Does <xsl:output indent="yes"/> do what you want?

ehsansad · October 20th, 2010, 10:31 AM

I have this at the top of my master xslt file

Code:

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

but it dosen't do the job.

Martin Honnen · October 20th, 2010, 10:36 AM

Please explain in more detail how your input XML, stylesheet, current output, desired output looks, which XSLT processor you use and how you look at the transformation result.

mhkay · October 20th, 2010, 11:10 AM

If indent="yes" has no effect, it might be because you are not using the XSLT serializer. For example, you might be writing the result tree to a DOM, and then using the DOM serializer.

ehsansad · October 21st, 2010, 09:43 AM

How do I find out if I'm using the XSLT serializer? For writing and debuging I am using Visual studio 2010.

Martin Honnen · October 21st, 2010, 09:54 AM

Show us the C# or VB.NET code you use to run the XSLT transformation. Make sure you write to a file or stream or if you use write to an XmlWriter make sure you create it with XmlWriter.Create("file.xml", xslCompiledTransformInstance.OutputSettings).

ehsansad · October 21st, 2010, 10:28 AM

There isn't any, I am using VS as a XML/XSLT editor. I just created a blank C# project and added the XMl, XSLT and schemas to the project. So I use the XML Schema explorer to look at my schemas and use the XML menu to run or debug the style sheets, no other code is involved.

samjudson · October 21st, 2010, 10:47 AM

I've tried this in Visual Studio 2010, and the indent="yes" does make a difference to the output.

However, if I remember correctly Microsoft's XSLT processor also gives importance to whitespace found in the input XML, so you might want to try adding the following to your XSLT file as well and see what you get:

Code:

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

If that still doesn't work then an example of your input XML and XSLT files will be needed.

ehsansad · October 22nd, 2010, 09:45 AM

Thank you VS for the Find and Replace function :-) used the <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> at the end of each element.