XSL and newline characters

Is this email being sent as HTML email or plain text email?

Is this email being sent as HTML email or plain text email?

The email is being sent as an HTML email

Can you stick br tags in between ?

Have you tried using " " in your XSL? What outcome do you see? Is it showing up in the text just as a string or is it enforcing a break?

Can you stick br tags in between ?

I tried that and it translates the brackets into the escape sequence for brackets so the brackets print out as regular text. If I knew how to print out HTML tags in these posts without them being translated into HTML I would show you what it looks like. So basically, no matter how I represent a newline (I've tried it 3 different ways), it translates the codes for newline so they print out exactly as I typed them, so there are no actual newlines in the output, just the characters you would have hoped would have produced newlines. It's like a sick joke....

Have you tried using "
" in your XSL? What outcome do you see? Is it showing up in the text just as a string or is it enforcing a break?

Yes, see above. It just prints out the br tag in plain text. Like it's laughing at me...

Try escaping it:

Try escaping it:

That was one of the 3 things I tried as well. It simply prints out that exact string in my email body. No newlines.

Like it's laughing at me...

Hmmm, I think I like it.

can you try something like this:

[php]

[/php]

Ok you need to escape it like I mentioned in the last post:
 

as well as do something like this:
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Whatever-your-text-field-is"/>

Hmmm, I think I like it.

can you try something like this:

[php]

[/php]

I will see if my coworker can make sense of that on Monday. I am not fluent in XSL yet, so I don't know if we can incorporate that into what he's written. What is that supposed to do?

Ok you need to escape it like I mentioned in the last post:
 

as well as do something like this:
disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Whatever-your-text-field-is"/>

OK - I'll try that on Monday as well. Your string shows as only escaping the second ampersand with the slash. Did you also intend to escape the first one? Thanks for the help!! I'll let you know if it works.

I will see if my coworker can make sense of that on Monday. I am not fluent in XSL yet, so I don't know if we can incorporate that into what he's written. What is that supposed to do?

writing it in perl


$br= "<"."br".">";
foreach $file (@files) {
print "$br $file\n";
}

Though you probably should try vaptel's solution first.

writing it in perl
$br= "<"."br".">";
foreach $file (@files) {
print "$br $file\n";
}
Though you probably should try vaptel's solution first.

If I could write it in perl, I wouldn't have this problem. ;o)

Yeah he sounds like he knows what he's talking about - I'll try his first.

My last post looks valid to me. Maybe I am not seeing right -- its Friday! Which string is not escaped properly? From what I can tell it looks valid to me.

My last post looks valid to me. Maybe I am not seeing right -- its Friday! Which string is not escaped properly? From what I can tell it looks valid to me.

I can't figure out how to make it show the string in a post without it translating it....grrrrrr

How do you guys do that??????

Look at this page to see how you can format stuff on here: http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/misc.php?do=bbcode

Ok you need to escape it like I mentioned in the last post:
 

as well as do something like this:
disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Whatever-your-text-field-is"/>

I think this is possibly going to be the winner. I just Googled that flag and it looks like it may do the trick. I'll give it a shot on Monday and let you know. Thanks a ton!

Happy to report that this solution worked, so thank you to vpatel and nipper for the help.

The solution was slightly different than what I expected after looking up the disable-output-escaping flag on Google. I will try to show the working solution here, but I am still having trouble getting angle brackets to show up in my posts.

We originally thought that the escaped version of the br tag would work, but that ended up printing out the exact text of what I typed in. But when I used the actual br tag with brackets, it worked:

[HTML]I want a blank line after this text

[/HTML]

OH MY **** THIS WON'T DISPLAY THE WAY I WANT IT TO. WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING???

So yay! Thanks again...

What the heck do I wrap around the characters ampersandlt; to keep it from translating it to a bracket in my posts? I tried CODE, HTML and PHP and nothing works. How do you do that??????

Yeah usually the solution that i provided is pretty much all you need for 90% of escaping/unescaping issues.

Glad it worked for you.

Adam Stoller

What the heck do I wrap around the characters ampersandlt; to keep it from translating it to a bracket in my posts? I tried CODE, HTML and PHP and nothing works. How do you do that??????

The trick I use (which is difficult to show because it involves double-escaping) is:

]&<x>lt;

The little

<x>

can be used in XML elements, entities, and URLs to prevent the surrounding string from getting interpreted by the forum software.

The trick I use (which is difficult to show because it involves double-escaping) is:
]&<x>lt;
The little
<x>
can be used in XML elements, entities, and URLs to prevent the surrounding string from getting interpreted by the forum software.

Thank you!!! That was so frustrating because everyone else seemed to be able to display those characters and I couldn't figure out how.

<Yay I did it!>

Awesome....

Thank you!!! That was so frustrating because everyone else seemed to be able to display those characters and I couldn't figure out how.

<Yay I did it!>

Awesome....

Your mother must be so proud. I was enjoying watching you squirm, which is why I never posted. Too bad Adam blew all the fun by telling you how.