XML: Concatenate string and line break

Question

I want to write a simple message with a line break in the middle. I know that in Java you can do something like the following:

"Hey, this is a message" + \n + "...and this is the rest of it on a new line"

How can I do the same in XML? Can I use the \n escape character or do I use the html line break?

I would like to add a message to the following element in the ObjectValue attribute:

<EnterValue ScreenName="" ObjectName="EMAIL_MESSAGE" ObjectValue=""/>

@DarkCthulhu: not precisely a duplicate - the cited question aims at inserting content of xml elements into html, the latter requiring a markup representation of a newline. — collapsar
– collapsar, Commented Aug 9, 2013 at 16:21

collapsar · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-09 16:15:43Z

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use the numrical entity representation of xml: &#x<hex code of char>;, eg 
, for a LF, CR, respectively.

note that this method works without regard to the character set and/or encoding being used as the byte range 0x00 - 0x7f is shared by all encodings (roughly speaking at least. ebcdic will be different. but the dichotomy between unicode encodings vs. byte-oriented charsets will be covered).

answered Aug 9, 2013 at 16:15

collapsar

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neuquen Over a year ago

I tried doing something like this "Message 1  Message 2" but it is still on the same line. How should it be formatted?

collapsar Over a year ago

try 
, 
 at first. which application will display your xml data?

neuquen Over a year ago

It's being displayed in IE9.

neuquen Over a year ago

So, by copying exactly what you had, I got "Message 1 [new line] , [new line] Message 2

neuquen Over a year ago

Alright, I got the desired results with just 
. Thanks! This seems kind of like a hack or workaround. Is there another way?

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