RE: Adding line breaks to HTML source files

[Cavicchio_Rob@emc.com]

Jennifer Moore [mailto:jennifer@uncharted-worlds.org] wrote:

> Not a major problem, but something I was puzzling over:  how 
> do the line 
> breaks get into HTML source files generated from DocBook XML?  (or 
> indeed any XML I suppose.)


This is handled automatically by the XSLT processor. There is an
attribute on <xsl:output> and <xsl:result-document> called "indent" that
can be set to "yes" or "no". If you set it to "yes", the processor adds
whitespace to make the code more readable. But as you might imagine,
this can cause problems with HTML content that's intended to be laid out
as is--mainly the contents of the <pre> element, which is often used to
display code.

The slegdehammer alternative to getting more line breaks in your code
might be to force them in with an <xsl:text> element:

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


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