strange asp goings on

[anyideas]

hey all.

I've got a textarea on an asp page, it's contents get saved to an sql 7 table.

In another asp page the contents get displayed (uses xml & xsl to render).

If I enter "abc" on the same line then it all works fine. However, if in the textarea i write:

a
b
c

(pressing enter after each character)
in sql it gets stored as:

a
b
c

but gets displays as "a b c" in the asp.

Has anyone got any ideas as to why and how to get around it?

Cheers

Mark

 

[FesterSXS]

when you pull the content from the database, do this:

Replace(db contents, vbcrlf,&quot;<BR>&quot;)

This will replace all the line breaks in the database content with valid HTML line breaks for use in your ASP.

hope this helps

Tony

 

[anyideas]

Great idea, but...

It came out looking like &quot;a <br> b <br> c&quot; - not quite the ideal solution but lots of thanks for trying!!

It's because it's not doing a response.write(variable), but being rendered by xml,xsl.

I need to try and do the same to the value of <xsl:value-of select=&quot;Notes&quot;/>.

Thanks for trying again

Mark

 

[FesterSXS]

&quot;In another asp page the contents get displayed (uses xml & xsl to render).&quot;

Doh!! didnt read the bracketed part, sorry!!

I'm afraid I dont know enough about XML to help you

Good luck

Tony

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[anyideas]

No worries

Thanks for trying

Mark

 

[codestorm]

Not in a position to tinker with XSL at the moment, but what about the (from memory) output attribute ?
(Hang on I'll go look it up)
<xslutput method=&quot;html&quot; />
What's it currently set to ?
Not sure, but it may make a difference. codestorm
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