A better way to insert newlines?

[John Wetherbie]

Hi,
I've been using the following in a stylesheet to insert newlines in my output document:

<xsl stuff><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

I'm hoping someone can tell me a better way!
Thanks,
John

[Karthik Guru]

Originally posted by John Wetherbie:
Hi,
I've been using the following in a stylesheet to insert newlines in my output document:

<xsl stuff><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

Probably you can declare a variable newLine and initialies it to the new line and use it.

  
<xsl:variable name="newLine">
 <xsl:text>
 </xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>

SomeStuff
<xsl:value-of select="$newLine"/>
Something other stuff

am not sure if this is what you were expecting

[John Wetherbie]

Well, I hadn't thought of that, so that makes it interesting. I'll certainly try it and see if it helps clean things up.
Any other proposals out there?
Thanks,
John

[Mapraputa Is]

This is a quote from Michael Kay answering this question in Wrox's XSLT forum:
" Use <xslutput method="text">, and use <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> where you want the newline to appear.
Some people find it useful to declare this as an entity:
<!ENTITY nl "<xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>">
so you can then simply write "&nl;" where you want the newline."
[ March 20, 2002: Message edited by: Mapraputa Is ]

[John Wetherbie]

OK. That looks good, too.
Is there a reason or reasons to use an entity vs. a variable or vice-versa?
John

[John Wetherbie]

Here's what I ended up doing. It seems to work pretty well.

  
<xsl:variable name="nl" select="'
'"/>

John