You've specified the result of the function as xs:string. This means that
any elements in the result get atomized, and when you atomize an empty <br/>
element you get nothing (well, you get an empty string, which amounts to the
same thing...). Declare the result as node()* and all should be well.
My own style would be to use a template for this rather than a function.
It's not mandatory, but I think people expect when they see a call-template
that nodes will be constructed, and they don't expect that when the see a
function call.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Agnisys [mailto:agnisys(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com]
Sent: 26 January 2006 22:01
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Returning HTML tags from a function not working
Hi,
I'm using Saxson XSLT 2.0 on a Linux system.
Input looks like this:
<doc>
Some text that can be
Multiline. It can also have lots of spaces.
</doc>
The Output of XSL is set to HTML.
I need the output to retain the newlines but retain the spaces.
So I want the HTML to look like:
-----------------------------------------------
Some text that can be
Multiline. It can also have lots of spaces.
-----------------------------------------------
Here is my function, but somehow the <br /> vanishes from the
HTML and so I get one line only.
<xsl:function name="xrsl:printdoc" as="xs:string*">
<xsl:param name="docnode" as="element()?"/>
<xsl:if test="$docnode[1]">
<xsl:analyze-string select="$docnode[1]" regex="\n">
<xsl:matching-substring><br /></xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:function>
Please help!
Thanks,
Anupam.
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