Your suggestion worked. Thank you.

But there were absolutely no line terminators within any of
the elements in my XML document, so I don't understand where
they were coming from.

Chris

"Robert C. Lyons" wrote:
> 
> Chris writes:
>         "In short, I'm gaining newlines where none are
>         indicated in my stylesheet."
> 
> Chris,
> 
> I suspect that the extra line terminators are coming
> from your XML document. Try stripping the white
> space from your XML doc (using the default-space="strip"
> attribute in the stylesheet element) and using the
> text instruction to output the line terminators.
> 
> For example:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
>     indent-result="no" default-space="strip">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:text>FIELD1&#9;FIELD2&#9;FIELD3&#xD;&#xA;</xsl:text>
> <xsl:apply-templates />
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="record">
> <xsl:value-of select="field_1" /><xsl:text>&#9;</xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="field_2" /><xsl:text>&#9;</xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="field_3" /><xsl:text>&#xD;&#xA;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Caveat emptor: I didn't test the example.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Bob
> 
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> Bob Lyons
> EC Consultant
> Unidex Inc.
> 1-732-975-9877
> boblyons@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.unidex.com/
> 
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