Re: [xsl] generating formatted text output

["Noel Golding" <noel at spearreport dot com>]

thanks, this worked great!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] generating formatted text output


>
> > I have tried setting
> > the indent attribute of <xsl:output> both to yes and no with no effect.
>
> it only affects the xml and html output methods.
>
> > The output has some sections that just run into each other instead
> > of breaking and other lines have indented characters.  I have tried
setting
> > the indent attribute of <xsl:output> both to yes and no with no effect.
>
> <xsl:template match="root">
>
> Excerpts from this week's issue
> Volume <xsl:value-of se
>
>
>
> There the first node of the template is a text node with two newlines
> and then some non white characters "Exc..." so in this case the entire
> text node apears in the output.
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="document/title" />
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="document/section[@name='executive summary']"
/>
>
> Here the text node between the two apply-template element nodes just
> consists of a two newline characters, so is a white space text node
> so stripped. To get a newline (or rather, two) here use
> <xsl:text>&#10;&#10;</xsl:text>
>
> David
> (this is a FAQ)
>
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