Dear List,
I've been struggeling with an entity problem all day, and the things I tried
didn't work out.
I'm working with Saxxon 8B and XSLT 2.0.
I have an imput file wich contains XML-output from a sybase database.
Long text fields may contain line breaks which appear in the XML as 
Example:
<UserField Type="longtext" Name="some name">I'm a veeery long text.I'm a veeery
long text in some text.I'm
a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long text
in
some text.
I'm a veeery long text in .I'm a veeery
long text in some text.I'm a veeery long
text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in
.


I'm a veeery long text in
.I'm a veeery long text in some text.I'm a veeery long
text in some text.I'm a veeery long text in.</UserField>
When I transform the XML to HTML, they just dissappear.
I searched in the mailing list archive and I seem to have understood that when
the file is parsed, the 
 becomes a line break. I suppose this is why I
fail with the following tokenization?
<xsl:for-each select="fn:tokenize(.,'
' )">
<xsl:if test="(fn:string-length(fn:normalize-space (.)) > 0)">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<br/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
If so, how do I do this?
I also tried using a character map, but still it does not work out.
<xsl:character-map name="break">
<xsl:output-character character=" "
string="&nbsp;" />
<xsl:output-character character="
" string="<br/>"/>
</xsl:character-map>
Someone mentioned that with XSLT 2.0 there was a way to convert the parsed
entity back to an entity, but I didn't understand how and where I would have to
do that.
Could someone explain or point me to a book? I tried with Frank Bongers' but
unfortunately, I haven't found anything dealing with line break codes within an
element (the ebook-Version my library provides has no bookmarks or
cross-references which makes it rather unwildy, so maybe I failed to find it).
I'd appreaciate any help (and will remember to send my thanks to the list
address and not the digest address as happend last time ;-)
Regards
CJ
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