Carriage returns in field disappear?

[kellstee]

I'm a total XML/XSL newbie and just can read a little bit. I have a shipping application where we can write templates in XSL, so I'm having to learn it.

I have a field in the application where we type comments like:

Customer needs the following items:
1 Red Shirt
2 Blue Socks
7 Green Bags

The comments field contains carriage returns. I have programmed the invoice to pull the comments field, but when the data spits out, it runs together like so:

Customer need the following items: 1 Red Shirt 2 Blue Socks 7 Green Bags

How can I get the invoice to respect the carriage returns that we have utilized in the comments field?

 

[k5tm]

...and the fields in the application are implemented how? What language? Are they a textarea in an HTML form? Hard to guess...

Need some more to go on.

BTW, you were claiming you were a newbie in January. We will answer questions without that particular predicate. We just need a good problem description.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[Miros]

You could replace the line breaks (\r, \n, or a combination) with <br /> for purposes of inclusion in the XML, then swap them back when you're ready to display them.