Zest4Quest wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have an xml in the following format
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><Assessment 
> xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
> <ObGyn>
> <OBGYNNotes>a
> b
> c
> d
> e
> </OBGYNNotes>
> </ObGyn>
> </Assessment>
> 
> The characters in "abcde" all are in seperate lines which is picked up from 
> the UI.
> 
> Now when i transform this xml to an RTF format the "abcde" instead of 
> retaining the newline effect comes out as "abcde" as if its one word. The 
> code that i am using to do the conversion is given below. The sXML holds the 
> above xml.

How are you looking at the transformation result?
I can't reproduce the problem with a simple console application.
The XSLT is as follows:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
 >
     <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>

   <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:value-of select="concat('|', Assessment/ObGyn/OBGYNNotes, '|')"/>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The console code simply does

             string xml = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" 
encoding=""utf-16""?><Assessment
xmlns:i=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" >
<ObGyn>
<OBGYNNotes>a
b
c
d
e
</OBGYNNotes>
</ObGyn>
</Assessment>";

             XslCompiledTransform proc = new XslCompiledTransform();
             proc.Load(@"..\..\XSLTFile1.xslt");
             proc.Transform(new XPathDocument(new StringReader(xml)), 
null, Console.Out);

the output on the console is

|a
b
c
d
e
|


So I am not sure where the problem comes from.

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