Adding a new line/break tag in XML

Question

I have been trying to add a new line/break to code within XML and have been unsuccessful.

I have tried so far:

&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br&gt; 
&#xA;

Here is a sample of the code I am working with. I included "
" to show where the break is located within the code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="dummy.xsl"?>
  <item>
     <summary>Tootsie roll tiramisu macaroon wafer carrot cake.       
               &#xA; Danish topping sugar plum tart bonbon caramels cake.
     </summary>
  </item>

just type `\n` - works for me – Rafal Iwaniak May 15 '18 at 10:00 — Rafal Iwaniak, May 15 '18 at 10:00

score 106 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 25 '14 at 13:40

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New Line XML

with XML

Carriage return: 
Line feed:

or try like @dj_segfault proposed (see his answer) with CDATA;

 <![CDATA[Tootsie roll tiramisu macaroon wafer carrot cake.                       
            Danish topping sugar plum tart bonbon caramels cake.]]>

edited Apr 25 '14 at 13:40

Patrick Hofman

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answered Jun 06 '12 at 16:24

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Err, what would happen if the text contained the character sequence `]]>`? – deed02392 Aug 07 '13 at 15:07
You missed the semicolon on the end of – Stephen Holt Mar 06 '14 at 11:10
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Future reference to myself: for AS3, the above is the answer you are looking for..! – Bill Kotsias Aug 15 '14 at 13:48
@deed02392 you should escape either of the ] ] > characters – Luis Masuelli Oct 13 '15 at 17:44
@deed02392 See [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/12860902/822870) how to have `]]>` inside CDATA. In short, use: `]]]]><![CDATA[>` – David Balažic Nov 04 '16 at 20:51
You can also use decimal values ` ` – Nande Jun 07 '17 at 18:00

Courtney Jordan · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-31T15:13:14.297

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The solution to this question is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="dummy.xsl"?>
  <item>
     <summary>
        <![CDATA[Tootsie roll tiramisu macaroon wafer carrot cake. <br />      
                 Danish topping sugar plum tart bonbon caramels cake.]]>
     </summary>
  </item>

by adding the <br /> inside the the <![CDATA]]> this allows the line to break, thus creating a new line!

edited Jul 31 '13 at 15:13

answered Jul 31 '13 at 12:09

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`
` is HTML, not XML! – Peter Jan 28 '14 at 15:38
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@Peter Really? At least do some research before yelling out things you think are wrong. This is the entire point of why `<![CDATA]]>` is being used. – Spencer Wieczorek Jan 30 '14 at 20:20
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Yes, `
` is not XML. The poster did not specify that she wanted to receive HTML. As the other answers suggest, a newline in XML is ``. That is exactly the reason why you need to add the `<![CDATA]]>` section, because the content is not XML... – Peter Feb 03 '14 at 17:28
@Peter CRLF? What about Linux or MacOSX? Still the same? – Ruslan Jun 13 '16 at 10:08
@Ruslan, you're correct, CRLF is for Windows. And I was totally wrong about `&X10` – Peter Jun 14 '16 at 20:42
I used <![CDATA]]> without line break
and it works just perfectly! – ErickPaul Mar 24 '17 at 20:41

score 44 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 22:46

You don't need anything fancy: the following contains a new line (two, actually):

<summary>Tootsie roll tiramisu macaroon wafer carrot cake.       
         Danish topping sugar plum tart bonbon caramels cake.
</summary>

The question is, why isn't this newline having the desired effect: and that's a question about what the recipient of the XML is actually doing with it. For example, if the recipient is translating it to HTML and the HTML is being displayed in the browser, then the newline will be converted to a space by the browser. You need to tell us something about the processing pipeline.

ST3 · Answer 4 · 2015-10-06T09:17:29.933

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You are probably using Windows, so new line is CR + LF (carriage return + line feed). So solution would be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="dummy.xsl"?>
  <item>
     <summary>Tootsie roll tiramisu macaroon wafer carrot cake.&#13;&#10;Danish topping sugar plum tart bonbon caramels cake.
     </summary>
  </item>

For Linux there is only LF and for Mac OS only CR.

In question there showed Linux way.

edited Oct 06 '15 at 09:17

answered Oct 23 '13 at 13:31

ST3

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Correct I was using a windows however the carriage return didn't seem to work for me. I provided the solution to my conflict above – Courtney Jordan Oct 25 '13 at 11:59
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Correct me if im wrong but Mac OS X uses LF just like the rest of the unix compatible systems? – Peter Jul 09 '14 at 13:39
@Peter Mac OS X uses LF, but version 9 and earlier used CR. – Ken Gregory Sep 02 '15 at 18:55
@KenGregory sure but version 9 is Mac OS and not Mac OS X... – Peter Sep 03 '15 at 06:43
@Peter which brings us back to ST3's original comment, which references Mac OS. – Ken Gregory Sep 03 '15 at 14:09
@KenGregory oh now i understand your comment, seems like i was to hasty sorry. – Peter Sep 07 '15 at 13:28
Doesn't the x after the # mean that the number is in Hexadecimal, in which case it would be – Martin Brown Oct 06 '15 at 08:46
@MartinBrown yes, you are right, fixed post. – ST3 Oct 06 '15 at 09:18

score 10 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 11 '16 at 07:18

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This solution worked to me:

<summary>Tootsie roll tiramisu macaroon wafer carrot cake. &#xD;Danish topping sugar plum tart bonbon caramels cake.</summary>

You will have the text in two lines.

This worked to me using the XmlReader.Read method.

answered Apr 11 '16 at 07:18

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score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 15:47

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You probably need to put it in a CDATA block to preserve whitespace

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="dummy.xsl"?>   
   <item>      
      <summary>
         <![CDATA[Tootsie roll tiramisu macaroon wafer carrot cake.                       
            Danish topping sugar plum tart bonbon caramels cake.]]>
      </summary>   
   </item>

answered Jun 06 '12 at 15:47

dj_segfault

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Gave your example a try but still no luck. – Courtney Jordan Jun 06 '12 at 20:16

score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Jan 09 '14 at 17:38

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The easiest way to give a line break is to do the following :
1> Add the following in CSS - e{display:block}
2> Now wherever you want to give a line break, type -

<e></e>

edited Jan 09 '14 at 17:38

rene

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answered Jan 09 '14 at 17:17

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score 1 · Answer 8 · edited Sep 09 '13 at 22:35

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Without using CDATA, try

<xsl:value-of select="'&#xA;'" />

Note the double and single quotes.

That is particularly useful if you are not creating xml aka text. <xsl:output method="text" />

edited Sep 09 '13 at 22:35

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Dec 02 '14 at 03:16

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The Way to do Line Break in XML is to use 


It worked for me in Eclipse IDE , when I was designing my XML layout & was using TextView.

answered Dec 02 '14 at 03:16

Rohan Mundhey

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 20 '15 at 20:07

Had same issue when I had to develop a fixed length field format.

Usually we do not use line separator for binary files but For some reason our customer wished to add a line break as separator between records. They set

< record_delimiter value="\n"/ >

but this didn't work as records got two additional characters:
< record1 > \n < record2 > \n.... and so on.

Did following change and it just worked.

< record_delimiter value="\n"/> => < record_delimiter value="
"/ >

After unmarshaling Java interprets as new line character.

score 0 · Answer 11 · edited Sep 08 '15 at 21:40

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Wanted to add my solution:

< br/ >

which is basically the same as was suggested above
In my case I had to use &lt for < and &gt for > Simply putting <br /> did not work.

edited Sep 08 '15 at 21:40

James Gentes

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answered Sep 08 '15 at 20:40

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score -1 · Answer 12 · answered May 20 '15 at 05:57

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just simply press enter it make a break

<![CDATA[this is
my text.]]>

answered May 20 '15 at 05:57

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Zabi Baig · Answer 13 · 2017-07-13T16:04:44.223

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This can be addressed simple by CSS attribute:

XML: <label name="pageTac"> Hello how are you doing? Thank you I'm Good</label>

CSS

.pageText{
white-space:pre !important; // this wraps the xml text.}

HTML / XSL

<tr>
        <td class="pageText"><xsl:value-of select="$Dictionary/infolabels/label[@name='pageTac']" />
            </td></tr>

edited Jul 13 '17 at 16:04

answered Jan 13 '17 at 14:30

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score -5 · Answer 14 · edited Nov 24 '15 at 13:31

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(Using system.IO)

You can simply use \n for newline and \t in front of the string to indent it.

For example in c#:

public string theXML() {
    string xml = "";
    xml += "<Scene>\n";
    xml += "\t<Character>\n";


    xml += "\t</Character>\n";
    xml += "</Scene>\n";
    return xml;
}

This will result in the output: http://prntscr.com/96dfqc

edited Nov 24 '15 at 13:31

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That is a C# example, not XML. – Greg Brown Jan 07 '16 at 16:57

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