I am using XSLT inside of ASP, it's serviced by msxml6.
Incoming XML loaded to the object has "carriage returns" which I think may be ASCII 10. I would like to transform those to <br/>
in the output.
I am trying to detect
in the incoming XML, but can't seem to find that. I've tried Javascript (JScript inside of ASP), to no avail.
It's coming from MS Excel spreadsheetML, interestingly.
Ideas on:
- how it's encoded in the XML object inside msxsm6
- how to detect, then replace with
<br/>
?
Thank you everyone, stackoverflow is great!!
From http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-line-ends
XML parsed entities are often stored
in computer files which, for editing
convenience, are organized into lines.
These lines are typically separated by
some combination of the characters
CARRIAGE RETURN (#xD) and LINE FEED
(#xA).
To simplify the tasks of applications,
the XML processor MUST behave as if it
normalized all line breaks in external
parsed entities (including the
document entity) on input, before
parsing, by translating both the
two-character sequence #xD #xA and any
#xD
that is not followed by #xA to a single #xA character.
So, it's ok to look for 

(or
). But do note that white space only text nodes from the input may or may not be preserve depending on XML tree provider (MSXSL XML parser doesn't preserve this text nodes). Not white space only text nodes are preserved, of course.
Then, this text
named template replace new lines with empty br
elements in XSLT 1.0:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()" name="text">
<xsl:param name="pString" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($pString,'
')">
<xsl:call-template name="text">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-before($pString,'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<br/>
<xsl:call-template name="text">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$pString"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
With this input:
<root>
<text>
whatever
</text>
<text>and more</text>
</root>
Output:
<root>
<text><br />whatever<br /></text>
<text>and more</text>
</root>
replace(replace(replace(XMLString, vbCrLf, ""), vbCr, ""), vbLf, "")
Here is a template I use to do this:
<xsl:template name="nl2br">
<xsl:param name="contents" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($contents, ' ')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($contents, ' ')" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
<br />
<xsl:call-template name="nl2br">
<xsl:with-param name="contents" select="substring-after($contents, ' ')" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$contents" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>