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    <p>I am using XSL FO to generate a PDF file containing a table with information. One of these columns is a "Description" column. An example of a string that I am populating one of these Description fields with is as follows:</p> <pre><code>This is an example Description.&lt;br/&gt;List item 1&lt;br/&gt;List item 2&lt;br/&gt;List item 3&lt;br/&gt;List item 4 </code></pre> <p>Inside the table cell that corresponds to this Description, I would like the output to display as such:</p> <pre><code>This is an example Description. List item 1 List item 2 List item 3 List item 4 </code></pre> <p>I've learned from searching elsewhere that you can make line breaks in XSL FO using an <code>&lt;fo:block&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;</code> within another <code>&lt;fo:block&gt;</code> element. Therefore, even before I parse the XML with my XSL stylesheet, I replace all occurrences of <code>&lt;br/&gt;</code> with <code>&lt;fo:block/&gt;</code>, so that the literal value of the string now looks like:</p> <pre><code>This is an example Description.&lt;fo:block/&gt;List item 1&lt;fo:block/&gt;List item 2&lt;fo:block/&gt;List item 3&lt;fo:block/&gt;List item 4 </code></pre> <p>The problem arises when the Description string I am using is obtained using <code>&lt;xsl:value-of&gt;</code>, example as follows:</p> <pre><code>&lt;fo:block&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="descriptionStr"/&gt; &lt;/fo:block&gt; </code></pre> <p>In which case, the value that gets output to my PDF document is the literal value, so it looks exactly like the previous example with all the <code>&lt;fo:block/&gt;</code> literals. I've tried manually hard-coding the <code>&lt;fo:block/&gt;</code> in the middle of another string, and it displays correctly. E.g. if I write inside my stylesheet:</p> <pre><code>&lt;fo:block&gt;Te&lt;fo:block/&gt;st&lt;/fo:block&gt; </code></pre> <p>It will display correctly as:</p> <pre><code>Te st </code></pre> <p>But this does not seem to happen when the <code>&lt;fo:block/&gt;</code> is inside the value of an <code>&lt;xsl:value-of select=""/&gt;</code> statement. I've tried searching for this on SO as well as Google, etc. to no avail. Any advice or help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!</p>
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