[DDI-users] Passing line breaks to DDI-XML

[Fredy Kuhn]

Sigbjoern, thank you - yes it works; I remember Matti from FSD used a =
lot of <blockquote>'s in his XSL. So it would be a quick solution to =
create preformatted text blocks (say 50 chars wide?), with paragraphs as =
needed.

After reading ICPSR's remarks on =
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ORG/aboutxml.html about <abstract>:

    "Paragraph breaks are not entirely stylistic;=20
    they represent a separation of ideas"

... I'm still asking myself if we should have, as a more general =
solution, DTD-based instructions to deal with line feeds & paragraphs, =
to prevent anticipating the text flow formatting on XML level.=20


P.S. Does somebody know how Nesstar deals (or will deal) with such CDATA =
sections?


For now, thank you
Freddy




----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Sigbjorn Revheim" <Sigbjorn.Revheim@nsd.uib.no>
To: <ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [DDI-users] Passing line breaks to DDI-XML


> At 14:56 21.08.2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >I added your example to one of my XML sheets, at the beginning of=20
> ><abstract>. Spaces are not at all preserved. Look here:
> >
> >with transform: =
http://www.static.sidos.ch/idc_test.asp?dest=3Didc/000241.XML
> >w/o transform:  http://www.static.sidos.ch/idc/000241.XML
> >
> >Any idea whats going on?
>=20
> Try using the HTML <pre> tag when outputting the text from the CDATA =
section.
>=20
> Sigbjoern
>=20
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