A lot of my stylesheets start with entity declarations for cr (
 and in
some cases 
) and crt (<xsl:text>&cr;</xsl:text>), so I can write
<xsl:text>abc</xsl:text>&crt;
See for an example [1].
This also works with XSLT 1.0.
Note that &cr; will not work within attributes because of attribute-value
normalization, a step every XML parser has to pass during parsing of the
stylesheet [2]. A workaround is a $newline variable as described by Liam.
Stefan
[1]
https://code.google.com/p/xslt-sb/source/browse/tags/xslt-sb/0.2/0.2.50/xslt-sb/tools/google_code.xsl
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize
Am 08.09.2013 um 02:12 schrieb Liam R E Quin <liam(_at_)w3(_dot_)org>:
On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 01:04 +0200, Heiko Niemann wrote:
b) Are there just no (top-rated) samples around because
codepoints-to-string() belongs to an extended set of functions that people
(like me) rarely/never use?
It's part of XSLT 2 [1], which doesn't have as widespread use as XSLT 1.
Using <xsl:value-of select="codepoints-to-string('10')" /> will indeed
give you a newline in cases where using an XML editor on your stylesheet
would turn into a literal newline which might then be reformatted
as a space by buggy ill-behaved software you shouldn't use :-) :-)
The right way for an editor to show indenting of XML documents is
visually, not by changing the text of the document.
Probably I'd have a global variable,
<xsl:variable name="newline" select="codepoints-to-string('10')" />
and document in a comment why you are using it.
Then you can use concat("abc", $newline, "cde") to get something much
more readable.
Liam
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-codepoints-to-string
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