The CDATA section is irrelevant. CDATA only changes the meaning of
special characters like "<", and there are no such characters in your
CDATA section.
Your problem is an HTML problem. A newline in an HTML document is not
rendered as a newline. You have to replace the newlines with <br/>, or
output the text in a <pre> element.
For replacing newlines with <br/>, see the FAQ.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Natarajan, Chokkalingam
Sent: 02 December 2002 16:54
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] output of cdata within xsl:value-of select
Folks, I have a question with regards to output of CDATA
value within a xsl:value-of select in a XSL file. I have an
XML data coming to an XSL file as a data stream and the XSL
contains the format in which the XSL should be displayed.
The fragment of code in my XML file is:
<TGMSG><![CDATA[This is a test message, hopefully this will go through
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6 end.]]>
</TGMSG>
There are line breaks (carriage returns) within the CDATA
section. This will pass through without any hassle while XML parsing.
The fragment of code in my XSL file is:
Your Message is: <br/>
<xsl:value-of select="TGMSG"/><br/>
But when I pass the above XML data input to the XSL file, the
output comes in without the line breaks. Like this:
This is a test message, hopefully this will go through line2
line3 line4 line5 line6 end.
But I want the output to come out like this (in other words,
I want to preserve the carriage returns / line breaks that I
get within the CDATA, and print them out using my XSL file):
This is a test message, hopefully this will go through
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6 end.
What should I do to achieve this? I need to perform this only
by modifying the XSL file. If anyone has encountered this
before or know the solution, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
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