RE: [xsl] disappearing line breaks within an element


This is now logged as a bug at

https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2530978&group_id=29872&ati
d=397617

and a patch to Saxon 9.1 is available.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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From: cavecatem(_at_)directbox(_dot_)com 
[mailto:cavecatem(_at_)directbox(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 22 January 2009 17:03
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] disappearing line breaks within an element

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 &#xD;

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.&#xD;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 .&#xD;&#xD;&#xD;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  &#xD; becomes a 
line break. I suppose this is why I fail with the following 
tokenization?

 <xsl:for-each select="fn:tokenize(.,'&#xD;' )">
     <xsl:if test="(fn:string-length(fn:normalize-space (.)) &gt; 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="&#160;"
                string="&amp;nbsp;" />
            <xsl:output-character character="&#xD;" 
string="&lt;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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