Carl, the classes you refer to, org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer and org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat are both from the Xerces project, not the Xalan project.
However you are asking a question about XSLT and presumably Xalan. Xalan has its own serializer. You would have to work at setting the appropriate properties in order to use a different serializer, so I presume that when using Xalan you are using the serializer packaged with Xalan. On the javax.xml.transform.Transformer you will find the method setOutputProperty(String key, String value). This method is used to over-ride values of parameters found on the xsl:output element in the stylesheet that control serialization. Besides the standard values, "method", "version", "encoding" ... Xalan provides some extension or non-standard xsl:output properties and one of those, "line-separator" is the one you are interested in. See the page http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xalan/transformer/TransformerImpl.html and look for "line-separator". Note that the API is a standard JAXP API, but the String values passed for the key are not standard. - Brian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian Minchau, Ph.D. XSLT Development, IBM Toronto e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Carl Hagenmaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To 01/26/2007 08:26 <xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org> AM cc Subject cr/lf options We have some old code that uses XMLSerializer and OutputFormat, which provides the method setLineSeparator(String arg0). The code has some problems, and I'm trying to replace it with code built on javax.xml.transform.Transformer. Unfortunately, I can't see any way to control the line separator. The archives contain a thread from 2001, which is not encouraging. I'm hopeful that there's been a relevant update. Any suggestions? -- Carl Hagenmaier
