How to Insert line break in XML

**Suzane** · 07-07-2009

I am using XML to display news on a site, but cant get a space between articles, If you could help it would be great.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<image>
<pic>
<decription>first line n\second line</decription >
</pic>

It works fine but everything is written to one line in the document. I do the same and create a HTML using XSLT and it contains line breaks. How do i get line breaks in XSLT?

**pancham** · 07-07-2009

if you're going to have multiple instances of the this display table you'll want to use classes instead of id's:

Code:

.postbody{color:#000;text-align:left;border:1px solid #000; border-top:0px solid #000;margin-bottom:10px;}

<td class="postbody"></td>

You may also try using the following output method.

Code:

<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

**PARRISH** · 07-07-2009

there is a way to fix this problem. Flash does not like 'white space' used in xml files. its just a simple little piece of code. this code looks something like this:

Code:

var createObject = new XML();
createObject.ignoreWhite = true;
createObject.load("fileToLoad.xml");

The initial property for linefeed-treatment= is "treat-as-space". If you want to respect the linefeeds created by your XML authors, then use the value "preserve". You could use copy-of and other ways to do an identity transform, but those are more typing for the same thing in this case. Depending on how you want the "formatted text" to be displayed, you may have to set all three of these properties to get output similar to "pre".