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Bruno Alexandre 29 posts 38 karma points

Jul 09, 2011 @ 20:33

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How to convert Richtext Editor into a string?

I'm trying to convert a Richtext Editor content into a JSON string, my code for this is

description: '<xsl:value-of select="htmlContent" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>'

but the output I get is not quite what I wanted, I'm having this:

description: '
<p>This is my 1st line content</p>
'

Witch breaks the JSON string. I even tried replacing New Lines with

<xsl:value-of select="Exslt.ExsltStrings:replace($varDescription, '\n', '<br/>')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

But I got the same output :(

Is there a way to simplify this simple task? How should I accomplish this?

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8791 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 10, 2011 @ 01:17
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Hi Bruno,

There's a couple of things you can do to better control this - first of all, if you have something like this:
```
<xsl:template match="/">
    description: '<xsl:value-of select="htmlContent" />'
</xsl:template>
```
- the template element is said to contain "mixed content", and all the whitespace before "description" and after the last apostrophe is called "significant whitespace" and will be output.

If you do this instead:
```
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>description: '</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="htmlContent" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
    <xsl:text>'</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
```
You have better control over the output, 'cause then there's no additional whitespace.

Second, in XML all linebreaks are normalized into the character "
", so your replace statement should look like this instead:
```
<xsl:value-of select="Exslt.ExsltStrings:replace($varDescription, '&#10;', '&lt;br/&gt;')" />
```
- but if that's not really what you want (if it's HTML already, you probably don't want extra hard breaks?), you can try the normalize-space() function:
```
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(htmlContent)" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
```
- which will strip all leading and trailing whitespace and collapse runs of whitespace between other characters into a single space.

Try them out and see what fits you,

/Chriztian
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