Hello All:

We are using an xslt to format xml and transform it into html.  Some of the 
nodes in the xml are filled with spaces (the xml is from a mainframe and is 
providing us with data for a web page report).  The xml is formatted as such:

<RespinseXml>
  <Records>
    <Record>blah blah blah</Record>
    <Record>blah blah blah</Record>
    <Record>                    </Record>
    <Record>                    </Record>
    <Record>blah blah blah</Record>
    <Record>blah blah blah</Record>
  </Records>
<?RespinseXml>

The empty lines are supposed to be blank lines in the report, but they are 
being dropped.  Here is the xslt:

<xsl:template match="/">
	
    <h1>Rating Worksheet</h1>    
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Records"/>
		
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Records">
      <pre>
        <xsl:for-each select="record">
          <xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </pre>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet> 

We use the html <pre> tags to retain the formatting provided by the 
mainframe (so that columns line up).  I thought that the html <pre> tag would 
preserve the spaces.  Does someone know what might cause the spaces to be 
dropped?

TIA,
-- 
Joe