I am working on a piece of code(scala) which renders documents like PDF, word etc. using XSL-FO.
At a point in implementation, a new line is introduced using \n. During debugging , I see that resulting xml string is as:
<fo:inline xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
</fo:inline>
But this is respected only for PDFs, and for word documents no new line is introduced. How to get it working for word too?
White-space characters generally collapse and linefeeds are generally ignored.
To preserve linefeeds, add either wrap="pre" (see https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#white-space) or linefeed-treatment="preserve" (see https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#linefeed-treatment).
wrap is a shorthand that sets values for linefeed-treatment, white-space-collapse, white-space-treatment, and wrap-option.
Your other option is to generate <fo:block />, as @kevin-brown suggested (and as I only just saw).