I'll have to think about the first question a bit longer, but I think I have
the answer to question 2:

What is your XML structure like? If it went something like

**************************************************************
XML SNIP
*************************************************************
<nothing>
	<line>line 1</line>
	<line>line 2</line>
	<line>line 3</line>
</nothing>
***************************************************************

then you could match templates:

****************************************************************
XSL SNIP
****************************************************************
<textarea name="a"><xsl:apply-templates match="line"/></textarea>

<xsl:template match="line">
	<P><xsl:value-of select="."/></P>
</xsl:template>
****************************************************************

That would seem the most logical way to do it.

Hope that helps,

Ben Robb
cScape.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 September 1999 01:11
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 2 questions about textarea
> 
> 
> I am using LotusXSL.
> 
> 1. If you have an empty value within textarea as: <textarea
> name="a"><xsl:value-of select="nothing"/></textarea> where 
> "nothing" is
> empty. It will output <textarea name="a"/>. I want <textarea
> name="a"></textarea>. Is there any way to work around this problem?
> 2. if I have a text value with multiple string, how can I put <P/> for
> each line break? For example, if the value for nothing multiple line
> string as:
>   line 1
>   line 2
>   line 3
> and I want to put it in a textarea as: <textarea 
> name="a"><xsl:value-of
> select="nothing"/></textarea>. How can I put the line break there.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> TK
> 
> 
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