New line character within XSL

Question

          <td>
          <xsl:for-each select="participants/participant">
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            <xsl:text> NEW LINE HERE   </xsl:text>
          </xsl:for-each>
          </td>

How can I get a new line where I have the text elements? I can have a space by having a space but I have tried everything to get return character.

possible duplicate of [Producing a new line in XSLT](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723226/producing-a-new-line-in-xslt) — , Oct 09 '14 at 16:38
Also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16051402/escaping-new-line-in-xslt. — , Oct 09 '14 at 16:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-09T16:43:17.067

2

Put an actual newline in:

<td>
    <xsl:for-each select="participants/participant">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
    </xsl:for-each>
</td>

Or, use an escape character such as 
.

edited Oct 09 '14 at 16:43

answered Oct 09 '14 at 16:30

It's `&x0a;`, but yes. – Boldewyn Oct 09 '14 at 16:31
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While `xsl:text` is space-preserving, I would always go with ` ` as that's more resistant to any re-formatting of the XML file. Your example in this answer, for instance, isn't just a newline but a newline followed by four spaces. – Ian Roberts Oct 09 '14 at 16:41
this doesn't work at all, just appears as a space still? – Alan Gordon Oct 09 '14 at 19:58
@AlanGordon This works perfectly. However, if you're viewing the result in a browser, any sequence of whitespace characters will be collapsed to a single space. Haven't you seen my answer? – michael.hor257k Oct 09 '14 at 20:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 09 '14 at 16:25

0

If you are producing an HTML table, output a <br/> element (not text) when you want a line break.

answered Oct 09 '14 at 16:25

michael.hor257k

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