There are a few ways of inserting a newline into the output of an XSLT, but most of them make the indentation look weird, require you to remember a strange character entity, or force you to type a bunch. The way I like to do it is to put a newline character into a variable, as follows:
<xsl:variable name="newline"><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
You can then use that variable in a variety of ways. Suppose you want to append a newline to the output of this XSLT:
<xsl:value-of select="$someExistingString" />
One way is to select the newline character after you select the existing variable:
<xsl:value-of select="$someExistingString" />
<xsl:value-of select="$newline" />
Alternatively, you can just concatenate it:
<xsl:value-of select="concat($someExistingString, $newline)" />
Like I said, there are alternative ways of doing this. If any of you prefer another technique, feel free to post it here as an alternate to mine.
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