how to add line breaks at the end of an xslt output? [duplicate]

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Producing a new line in XSLT

if have the following xslt file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
    <xsl:output method="text" />
    <xsl:template match="//teilnehmer">
        <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="kind"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

the output after transformation is a string without any whitespaces or line breaks

how can I add some formatting (e.g. a line break after a name)?

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The easiest way is with

<xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text>


 being a character reference that represents the newline character. Alternatively you can do

    <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

(i.e. an <xsl:text> containing just a newline character) but you need to ensure there are no spaces between the newline and the closing </xsl:text> (as they would be included in the output), which is easy to mess up if you ever use an IDE that does automatic indentation. Using the character reference is more robust.