Hi,

I'm trying to format an xml file as a fixed-width file using an XSLT stylesheet.
It's going pretty well, except for one problem with new lines.

I have to create new lines for each group of two repeating lines. To do this,
I'm using this character sequence:  

and this is my output element:

<xslutput method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>

The problem I'm encountering is that each line in the result file is spaced
or tabbed in to column 7, as seen below in this excerpt:

24 MONTH HISTORY

BMW/LAND ROVER FINCL S 30478 05/01/1998

2000159892 773

ANCHORBANK, SSB 4664 11/01/1994

1399621960831416 82 .........

"24 MONTH HISTORY" is the header and the rest of the lines are the repeating
ones. But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get rid of the leading spaces.
I have tried "&#xD;" instead of "&#x20;", using the strip-space() instruction
(which really doesn't apply here, I guess), and different encodings (UTF-16,
ANSI), but with no luck. I'm also trying "normalize-space()" in the XPath
expressions, but this doesn't help either.

Here's an excerpt from my XSLT:

<xsl:template match="credit_line_item">
&#x20;
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(creditor)"/><![CDATA[ ]]>
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(balance_owed)"/><![CDATA[ ]]>
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(date_opened)"/><![CDATA[ ]]>
&#x20;
<xsl:value-of select="account_number"/><![CDATA[ ]]>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="payment_amount">
<xsl:value-of select="payment_amount"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>0</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>


Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped!

TIA,
Paul Klanderud