How to implement Carriage return in XSLT

Question

I want to implement carriage return within xslt. The problem is I have a varible: Step 1 = Value 1 breaktag Step 2 = Value 2 as a string and would like to appear as

Answer 1

I believe that you can use the xsl:text tag for this, as in

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

Chances are that by putting the closing tag on a line of its own, the newline is part of the literal text and outputted as such.

Answer 2

I was looking for a nice solution to this, as many would prefer, without embedding escape sequences directly in the expressions, or having weird line breaks inside of a variable. I found a hybrid of both this approaches actually works, by embedding a text node inside a variable like this:

<xsl:variable name="newline"><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
<xsl:value select="concat(some_element, $newline)" />

Another nice side-affect of this is that you can pass in whatever newline you want, be it just LF, CR, or both CRLF.

--Daniel

Answer 3

use a simple carriage return in a xsl:text element

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

Answer 4

Try this at the end of the line where you want the carriage return. It worked for me.

<xsl:text><![CDATA[<br />]]></xsl:text>

Answer 5

I separated the values by Environment.NewLine and then used a pre tag in html to emulate the effect I was looking for

Answer 6

As an alternative to

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

you could use

<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text> <!-- newline character -->

or

<xsl:text>&#13;</xsl:text> <!-- carriage return character -->

in case you don't want to mess up your indentation