Thank you for your fast response!

> Oddly, your title says it all: you need to insert structure, but instead
you
> are trying to insert characters strings like "</p>" and "<p>" ...
I did this because i did not know how and wanted to show the intention.
Thanks
to your hint I wrote a solution based on xsl:element, see below.

> I'm sorry, but I don't have time this evening to show you a solution to
this
> problem.
No problem, I'm interested more in your experience and opinion about
reliable solutions and good style programming. So could you have a look and
at my solution in general and specifically about string handling and
parameter
usage?

> > Also the recursive template prevents me from adding html header
information.
I still don't know how to do this.

Best regards, Manfred


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method = "html" />
<xsl:template match="/" name="replaceLineBreaks">
<xsl:param name="string" select="." />
<xsl:param name="switch" select="0" />
<xsl:param name="A" select="." />
<xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="contains($string, '&#xA;')">
      <xsl:choose>
         <xsl:when test="starts-with($string, '      ')">
            <xsl:element name="p">
               <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($A, $string)" />
	  </xsl:element>
            <xsl:call-template name="replaceLineBreaks">
               <xsl:with-param name="string"
select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
               <xsl:with-param name="switch" select="1" />
               <xsl:with-param name="A" select="$string" />
            </xsl:call-template>
         </xsl:when>
         <xsl:when test="starts-with($string, '   ') and $switch=0">
            <xsl:call-template name="replaceLineBreaks">
               <xsl:with-param name="string"
select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
               <xsl:with-param name="switch" select="1" />
               <xsl:with-param name="A" select="$string" />
            </xsl:call-template>
         </xsl:when>
         <xsl:when test="starts-with($string, '   ') and $switch=1">
            <xsl:call-template name="replaceLineBreaks">
               <xsl:with-param name="string"
select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
               <xsl:with-param name="switch" select="1" />
               <xsl:with-param name="A" select="$A" />
            </xsl:call-template>
         </xsl:when>
         <xsl:when test="starts-with($string, 'fol.')">
            <xsl:variable name = "B" >
               <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($A, $string)" />
               <xsl:text>[</xsl:text>
               <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string, '&#xA;')" />
               <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
               <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
            </xsl:variable>
            <xsl:call-template name="replaceLineBreaks">
               <xsl:with-param name="string"
select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
               <xsl:with-param name="switch" select="1" />
               <xsl:with-param name="A" select="$B" />
            </xsl:call-template>
         </xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:if test="$switch=1">
	     <xsl:element name="p">
                  <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($A, $string)" />
	     </xsl:element>
            </xsl:if>
            <div><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string,
'&#xA;')" /></div>
            <xsl:call-template name="replaceLineBreaks">
               <xsl:with-param name="string"
select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
               <xsl:with-param name="switch" select="0" />
               <xsl:with-param name="A"
select="substring-after($string, '&#xA;')" />
            </xsl:call-template>
         </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="$switch=1">
      <xsl:element name="p">
         <xsl:value-of select="$A" />
      </xsl:element>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
      <div><xsl:value-of select="$string" /></div>
   </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>