Question

My application produces an xml file that is then xslt transformed into a nice html report. I have a problem with \n however. There are some xslt techniques to do it, but they are pretty awkward and time consuming.

So my solution was to do a string.replace \n to

< br />

and then to force the xmlWriter to write this with WriteRaw(text). The problem is that the text sometimes has some illegal chars like >.

I am unable to find any utility method in .net that just takes in a string and transforms it in a xml-friendly string. I looked with the reflector and the class that handles this logic is not public.

Any ideeas (beside writing my own code to do this)?

Answer 1

I think the solution to this question will help you:

xslt replace \n with <br/> only in one node?

You can incorporate the provided template into your transformation process, and you’re done without getting your hands dirty.