How to multiline content using xml to html

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I am having a string which is multiline in content and I use br tag or "\n" or Environment.newLine for it. Which I finally assign to XMLwriter like

writer.WriteElementString("FINALDESTINATION", valFinalDest);

But after loading the xsl file and writing my html using XmlTextWriter I loose the new line in the resulting html file. Is there any way I could retain the newline in the resulting html file.

Using br tags results in inline br tags in the html, while environment.newline and "\n" does not renders the final html with multiline content but in a single line.

see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2700435/writing-xmldocument-to-file-with-specific-newline-character-c — Tomas Walek, Oct 18 '11 at 13:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '11 at 14:04

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You have 2 options:

Replace new line with br, p, div, etc.
Put content inside pre element, which preserves both spaces and line breaks.

answered Oct 18 '11 at 14:04

Kirill Polishchuk

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Included pre tags in xsl file, works great. Thanks a lot @Kirill – Vinay Oct 18 '11 at 14:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '11 at 13:53

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Use XML CDATA.

answered Oct 18 '11 at 13:53

qJake

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stringvalue = "<![CDATA[" + stringvalue + "]]>" in code was resulting the html to have cdata as text included it. And if I was using it in xsl file then it was giving the xsl format as the output. – Vinay Oct 18 '11 at 14:21

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '11 at 14:00

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Set the property Indent of the object of type XmlWriterSettings to true and pass this object to the XmlWriter.Create method as second parameter.

answered Oct 18 '11 at 14:00

Tomas Walek

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How to multiline content using xml to html

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