Help replacing characters using XSL

[Greg L Tonn]

We have text data that has new line characters in it and when we transform it using our XSL the new lines preserved. So I was hoping to be able to replace the new line characters with the <br> tag.

XPath has a function, replace(string,pattern,replace). However, I can't get it to work with the <br> tag.

Does anyone have a better solution or know how I can get this one to work?

<xsl:value-of select="replace($Value, '
', <br>"/>

Thanks

[Paul Clapham]

You don't want to replace the newline by the string "<br>". You want to replace it by a "br" element, and that isn't the same thing.

However this is an XSLT FAQ, let me just google it... yup, here you go:

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/replace.html#d9478e13