Question

New Line in xslt is creating a problem for me. i searched a lot and found many ways of inserting a new line character in xslt. but nothing is working out. I tried using
<xsl:text></xsl:text>, <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> and many such other new line characters. but failed. I dont wanna use any html characters like <br/> n all. I just wanna know how will i get a new line in xslt.Does it depend on the os used, processor, xslt version or anything?

output what i want is:

Dear abc,
You Have received a Mail.

but i am getting it as:

Dear abc, You have received a mail.

i even used

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>&#xA; 1 &#xA; 2 &#xA; </xsl:text>

  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

but still it shows 1 2 in one line.

Answer 1

Based on the responses in the comment section the cause of your problem seems to be simply that you created a “.html” result file and then looked at that in a browser which applies HTML display rules where new lines are usually simply collapsed to spaces.
So the solution to the problem is to simply ensure you create a “.txt” file instead, that way your new lines will be displayed when looking at the file.