Formating pragraphs in XML

[WollyWog]

Does anyone here know how to preserve pragraphs in XML and XSL?

For example, if I have the following XML node:

<body_text>This is my body text. I would like it to be formatted so that all pargraphs are visible when the document is transformed in xhtml.

New pargraph here.</body_text>

How do I style my XSL template so that the break between xhtml. and New is visible in the final page???

[Egor]

Hi,

You may have better luck asking this in the XML section.

[AutisticCuckoo]

That's not going to be easy without any markup to trigger.

If you use <xsl:preserve-space elements="body_text"/> you might be able to use string functions to split the string at each line-feed and insert <p> tags, but it's hackish.

[codepoet]

The visible in the final page is the issue. HTML linebreaks are not rendered in the output unless the output is wrapped in a PRE tag.

So, to turn this into HTML linebreaks, you'd need to replace the linebreak character with a BR.

Examples here:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/replace.html

[WollyWog]

The visible in the final page is the issue. HTML linebreaks are not rendered in the output unless the output is wrapped in a PRE tag.

So, to turn this into HTML linebreaks, you'd need to replace the linebreak character with a BR.

Examples here:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/replace.html

Thanks guys, sorry about posting in the wrong forum, I couldn't find an XML section. Could I do it with <p> and </p> tags?