How to implement Carriage return in XSLT

Question

I want to implement carriage return within xslt. The problem is I have a varible: Step 1 = Value 1 breaktag Step 2 = Value 2 as a string and would like to appear as

Step 1 = Value 1

Step 2 = Value 2

in the HTML form but I am getting the br tag on the page.Any good ways of implementing a line feed/carriage return in xsl would be appreciated

Answer 1

use a simple carriage return in a xsl:text element

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

Answer 2

I believe that you can use the xsl:text tag for this, as in

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

Chances are that by putting the closing tag on a line of its own, the newline is part of the literal text and outputted as such.

Answer 3

As an alternative to

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

you could use

<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text> <!-- newline character -->

or

<xsl:text>&#13;</xsl:text> <!-- carriage return character -->

in case you don't want to mess up your indentation

Answer 4

I separated the values by Environment.NewLine and then used a pre tag in html to emulate the effect I was looking for