could a line break be lost during parsing? 2003-01-17 - By Christopher Ebert
It sounds like the XML parsing is preserving the line breaks (which it
should). You're probably losing them in the HTML formatting, which does not
preserve line breaks. If you want the breaks, you'll have to translate them to
<br> tags in HTML.
Cheers,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: dongjiang tang [mailto:dtang@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:44 AM
To: xerces-j-user@(protected)
Subject: could a line break be lost during parsing?
Hi,
I am generating a html page using XSLT.
I have a element with the value of mutiple line of text in a xml stream, like
below:
"line one
line two
line three"
I print it out right before the parsing:
System.out.println("XML = "+input.toString()) ;
reader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(input.toString()))) ;
I confirmed the element value is just like above with line break
But in the html, I want to break it into mutiple line using the following
templates but DID not see the line break:
<xsl:template name="add-line-breaks">
<xsl:param name="string" select="." />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($string, '
')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string, '
')" />
<br />
<xsl:call-template name="add-line-breaks">
<xsl:with-param name="string"
select="substring-after($string, '
')" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$string" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
then I added some debuging code in my xsl file to show the element directly:
<xsl:value-of select="@(protected)" /> (the @(protected) is the attribute holding that
string value), then I went to the source after I re-generated the HTML page, I
found that that element= "line one line two line three" without the line break
I feel somehow I lost the line break during the parsing.
Am I right about this? if yes, is there any confirguration to avoid this?
thank you !!
dongjiang
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=715245118-17012003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> It sounds like the XML parsing is preserving the line
breaks (which it should). You're probably losing them in the HTML formatting,
which does not preserve line breaks. If you want the breaks, you'll have to
translate them to <br> tags in HTML.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=715245118-17012003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=715245118-17012003> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=715245118-17012003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=715245118-17012003>
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=715245118-17012003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> dongjiang tang
[mailto:dtang@(protected)]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 17, 2003 9:44
AM<BR><B>To:</B> xerces-j-user@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> could a line
break be lost during parsing?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am generating a html page using
XSLT.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a element with the value of mutiple line
of text in a xml stream, like below:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"line one</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>line two</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>line three"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I print it out right before the
parsing:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
System.out.println("XML = "+input.toString()) ;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> reader.parse(new InputSource(new
StringReader(input.toString()))) ;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I confirmed the element value is just like above
with line break</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But in the html, I want to break it into
mutiple line using the following templates but DID not see the line
break:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><xsl:template
name="add-line-breaks"><BR> <xsl:param name="string"
select="." /><BR>
<xsl:choose><BR> <xsl:when
test="contains($string,
'&#xA;')"><BR>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string, '&#xA;')"
/><BR> <br
/><BR>
<xsl:call-template
name="add-line-breaks"><BR>  
;
<xsl:with-param
name="string"<BR>
select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')"
/><BR>
</xsl:call-template><BR>
</xsl:when><BR>
<xsl:otherwise><BR>
<xsl:value-of select="$string" /><BR>
</xsl:otherwise><BR>
</xsl:choose><BR></xsl:template><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then I added some debuging code in my xsl file
to
show the element directly: <xsl:value-of
select="@(protected)" /> (the @(protected) is the attribute holding that string value),
then I went to the source after I re-generated the HTML page,
I found that that element= "line one line two line three" without the
line break</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I feel somehow I lost the line break during
the parsing. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Am I right about this? if yes, is
there
any confirguration to avoid this? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thank you !!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>dongjiang</FONT> </DIV></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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