not adding new line in my XSLT

Question

I am not certain why my xslt won't put a new line in my output... This is my xslt....

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
>
  <xsl:output method="text" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
  <xsl:variable name="newline"></xsl:variable>
  <xsl:template name="FairWarningTransform" match="/">    <!--@* | node()">-->

          <xsl:for-each select="//SelectFairWarningInformationResult">  

                <xsl:value-of select="ApplicationID"/>,<xsl:value-of select="USERID"/>
                &#10;
          </xsl:for-each>

        * Note.  This report outlines Fair warning entries into reported for the above time frame.

      </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is my output...

1,TEST1,test2,

I want it to look like...

1,TEST
1,test2,

Why isn't this character creating a newline

Answer 1

XSLT's default behavior is to ignore any text nodes in the stylesheet that are entirely whitespace (this is true even if some of the whitespace is encoded as entities like 
), except for text inside <xsl:text>, which is preserved.

I suggest replacing these lines:

<xsl:value-of select="ApplicationID"/>,<xsl:value-of select="USERID"/>
&#10;

with this:

<xsl:value-of select="concat(ApplicationID, ',', USERID, '&#10;')"/>

That way the newline should be ensured to be included in the output.

Answer 2

Try using this as your newline instead of the escaped character:

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

Answer 3

Try replacing




with

<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>

That helps XSLT distinguish it from other whitespace in your stylesheet that is part of the stylesheet formatting (not part of the desired output).