Question

How can I add 
 as text when using libxslt?
Or, alternatively, make all browsers including Firefox display linefeeds in td/title elements properly by generating a different output?

The xslt code I use:

<td>
    <xsl:attribute name="title">
        <xsl:for-each select="input/item">
            <xsl:if test="position()!=1"><xsl:text>&#xD;</xsl:text></xsl:if>:<xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:attribute>
</td>

This works fine when applying Saxon9he, for instance leading to

<td title="item1&#xD;item2&#xD;item3"/>

But when I use libxslt (part of php) as XSLT 1.0 processor, and run the same code as above, I get real linefeeds in the result file:

<td title="item1
item2
item3"/>

causing Firefox to display the tooltip incorrectly (without linefeeds).

So I assumed I had to add disable-output-escaping attribute to <xsl:text> as follows:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="no">&#xD;</xsl:text>

but this has no effect.

Answer 1

So the conclusion from comments and tests is that it is a bug in Firefox but not in all versions: 9.01 does not even display &#xD; right; 10.0 does not display linefeed but does display 
 as a linefeed, and 12.0/13.0 display both correctly.

Case closed.