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Andy Fish - 26 Feb 2008 15:07 GMT

Hi,

I am using .Net 2.0 XslCompiledTransform with output method=text.

it seems to be converting all the line endings in the output to cr/lf
regardless of how I generate them. for instance, this fragment

<xsl:text>||
|
|<xsl:text>

generates |<crlf>|<crlf>|<crlf>|

any idea how I can control the line endings generated by the XSLT processor?

TIA

Andy

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Martin Honnen - 26 Feb 2008 16:02 GMT

> any idea how I can control the line endings generated by the XSLT
> processor?

I am not sure there is a way other than post-processing the result of
the XSLT transformation.

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Andy Fish - 28 Feb 2008 12:51 GMT

FWIW I found out you can do it using XmlWriterSettings.NewLineChars or
XmlWriterSettings.NewLineHandling. here's a sample:

XslCompiledTransform trans = new XslCompiledTransform();
trans.Load(...);
XmlWriterSettings ws = trans.OutputSettings.Clone();
ws.NewLineChars = '\n';
using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(..., ws))
{
trans.Transform(..., xw);
}

Andy

>> any idea how I can control the line endings generated by the XSLT
>> processor?
>
> I am not sure there is a way other than post-processing the result of the
> XSLT transformation.

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Martin Honnen - 28 Feb 2008 13:38 GMT

> FWIW I found out you can do it using XmlWriterSettings.NewLineChars or
> XmlWriterSettings.NewLineHandling. here's a sample:
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> XmlWriterSettings ws = trans.OutputSettings.Clone();
> ws.NewLineChars = '\n';

Nice. I tried settings NewLineChars too but did not clone it and then
the properties were read-only and my attempts failed.

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