many thanks to all who replayed my question, I've choose to declare some properties that have defaults not matching my needs, they are: 

- linefeed-treatment = "preserve";
- white-space-collapse = "false";
- white-space-treatment = "preserve".  

it seems a simple and workfull solution

ha ve a nice time during the week end

Marco

PS: tomorrow will be a sunny day

-----Messaggio Originale----- 
Da: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> At 2003-05-23 11:55 +0200, Marco Pedrini wrote:
> >If I have information stored in a DB ORACLE, inserted from a data field
> >where the user could write free text (including break line, with the ENTER
> >tab).
> >
> >HOW could I represent in pdf the same formatted text?
> 
> The initial property for linefeed-treatment= is "treat-as-space".  If you
> want to respect the linefeeds created by your XML authors, then use the
> value "preserve".
> 
> Spaces are also treated specially.  The initial value for
> white-space-treatment= is "ignore-if-surrounding-linefeed" and you may want
> to change that to "preserve".  The initial value for white-space-collapse=
> is "true" and you may want to change that to "false".
> 
> Depending on how you want the "formatted text" to be displayed, you may
> have to set all three of these properties to get output similar to "pre".
> 
> One final choice for you to make, what about authored lines that are too
> long for your printed line?  The initial value for wrap-option= is "wrap"
> and you may want "no-wrap".
> 
> >Actually the code I have is:
> >
> ><fo:block font-size="8pt" font-family="sans-serif" line-height="10pt"
> >space-after.optimum="4pt" padding-top="4pt">      <xsl:value-of select=
> >"// DATA/ROWTAG/CS01_DESC_OPERAT"/>
> ></fo:block>
> >
> >and all that is retrived fromn DB, via XML, mantain tha case format, but
> >lose the end of the line,  marked on DB with a double pipe.
> 
> I'm sorry that I do not understand what you mean by "marked on DB with a
> double pipe" ... the properties I have described above are for authored
> text that you want to preserve when rendering to the printed page, without
> the initial values of these properties converting the content to
> proportionally spaced flowed text.
> 
> By playing with the properties on a single block, you can flow all of your
> text with linefeeds into that single block without any kind of "breaking
> up" of the text into separate blocks.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> ................. Ken
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