RE: Tricky White Spaces being ignored

Hi,

> I have the following (example) template rule(s) along with 
> the outputed
> result (surrounded by ==== to show where output begins and ends:
>
> <xsl:template match="br">&#10;&#13;</xsl:template>
> ====Dear Mr. Schmidt, We would like to take this opportunity to...====
>
> <xsl:template match="br">&#10;&#13;x</xsl:template>
> ====Dear Mr. Schmidt,
>
> x
> xWe would like to take this opportunity to...====
>
> <xsl:template match="br">&#10;x</xsl:template>
> ====Dear Mr. Schmidt,
> xWe would like to take this opportunity to...====
>
> (last example is closest to right)
>
> NOTE:  The only way I get these &#10; or &#13; to create a 
> line break in my
> textarea is if I include a real character (character "x" above) in the
> template rule.  Then it works fine.  What gives?  It is 
> almost like the
> template rule is ignored otherwise.
The white space is stripped, see <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#strip>. Wrap the 
LINE FEED character into xsl:text:

  <xsl:template match="br">
    <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

Cheers,

Jarno

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