How to have line breaks in XML attributes?

Question

I have a attribute called: description and I want to have the following in it with new lines:

This is the content description section.

Download instruction:

This is the contents on how to download contents.

Hotline support:

This is the hotline for contents.

How do I create a new line for it in xml?

Answer 1

Try it like this:

<description><![CDATA[first line<br />second line<br />]]></description>

Basically you wrap the content within your tag inside "" for the closing tag, inbetween this tag you can use
to cause a line break. If you want to double space it, use two
like this:

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

If you need it in XML attribute, you'll have to use character entities:

<element attribute="First line&#10;Second line&#10;Third line..." />

Answer 3

Basically you want to insert CRLF:

CR code: 

LF code: 


<myelement description="line1&#13;&#10;line2&#13;&#10;line3"/>