Hi Sam.

You also could use a specific node to wrap your quotes, something like:
<quote>
 <br>Some text that goes on first line</br>
 <br>Some text that goes on the second line</br>
</quote>

That way you can call whatever template you want to transform that in
the line feed you need (&_#10; or <br />).

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sam Carleton
Sent: domingo, 5 de Janeiro de 2003 17:19
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Re:  outputing tags


On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 11:34:09AM -0500, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> It wasn't clear if you have all the answers you need, but in case you 
> still need a solution to:
> 
> "Ok, then how do I do this:  I have my xml file with all the info I 
> need in it.  There is one element named <quote> which contains quotes.

> Some quotes need to have line break ( <br>'s in HTML).  How do I 
> denote a line break in the XML and then how do I transform it?"
> 
> the answer is that XML doesn't have a special element to denote a line

> break. XSLT will happily copy any new lines you put in your source 
> document or ones that you introduce in the templates, but that can be 
> confusing (people often get line breaks where they weren't expecting 
> them because of this; see references to  <xsl:strip-space>,
> <xsl:preserve-space> and the normalize-space() function).
> 
> Since an element like "<br />" has no "meaning" in XML, and because it

> is a perfectly well-formed element, you can put them directly into 
> your source document and they will be copied into the result tree (and

> eventually serialized to your browser where "<br />" actually does 
> have a meaning). Or you could introduce it in the XSLT at the 
> appropriate points.

Charles,

I guess I phrased my Q the wrong way.  I am aware of the fact that the
tags in XML have no specia meaning.  But like any other programming
language there seems to be right and wrong ways of doing things.  

I am curious to know how others handle a situation I discribed above.  I
believe that I am going to run into this problem in many places and
would like to know the best solution.  Or at least the auther of the
replies best solution.

I do NOT feel that relying on the tradition linebreak is a
good idea.  I figured the best thing to do is denote a line break in my
XML the same way HTML denotes a line break. Espically considering the
target output is HTML.

Sam

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