thanks for helping...

I had already tried various ways to use the <br> as well as <br/> with it 
displaying as text. Maybe I need to look more into the perserve whitespace as 
you suggest. Never the less I will try to post later with more detailed 
information if whitespace approach doesnt work.

"Joe Fawcett" wrote:

> "Sean" <Sean@d...> wrote in message 
> news:EA6D9395-B95A-43F9-91B9-25487D729E0F@m......
> > this..<xsl:value-of select="ex:NarComment"/>...in a <td> element to grab my
> > XML data works fine. Only trouble is, I want to add a Newline to this XML
> > data so the template will print out the data with new lines where I need it.
> > I got everything (loops, concatation etc) all ready to go. I just cant
> > figure out the newline problem
> 
> Well there are two problems. One is that HTML doesn't recognise a newline 
> character such as the one represented by x0d, it needs <br>. The second is that 
> XML processors often remove white space is it is "insignificant". Their idea of 
> this and yours may not coincide :)
> If you just want to modify the XSLT than add br elements where applicable. If 
> you want to modify the XML then either add br elements or add 
> xml:space="preserve" to the document element. In your XSLT replace newlines with 
> br. Alternatively if you are loading with msxml then set the preserveWhiteSpace 
> to true before loading.
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> Joe (MVP - XML)
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