Re: [xml-dev] XSL Transform special character into <break>

[Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>]

Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
> Hello,  I am using the pipe character within XML data to indicate a line
> return.  The XML data is generated from a form element in VB, I have
> voluntarily transformed carriage returns to pipe characters.
> I am using XSL to transform this XML document into an HTML page for review
> by the user.  I would like to transform the pipe character into an HTML tag
> "<br />".
> 
> How can I do this using XSL?

Ask general XSLT questions on xsl-list, not xml-dev.

The answer to your problem is a variation of 
http://skew.org/xml/stylesheets/linefeed2br/

Replace the two '&#xA;' references in the lf2br template with '|'.

   - Mike
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