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Handling the tab character in XML data sources [message #555144] Wed, 25 August 2010 15:11 Go to next message
Nick P. is currently offline Nick P.Friend
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It seems that tabs in XML data sources do not display in reports properly. In the web viewer, they turn into a single space and in PDFs, they are removed entirely. I've tried using an actual tab in the XML, and I've also tried encoding using " ", both if which behave the same way.

How can I get tabs to display in my reports from XML data sources?

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Re: Handling the tab character in XML data sources [message #675912 is a reply to message #555144] Wed, 01 June 2011 22:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Joseph Yeh is currently offline Joseph YehFriend
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I was wondering if this question has been resolved yet. I have exactly the same question.

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Re: Handling the tab character in XML data sources [message #786791 is a reply to message #555144] Mon, 30 January 2012 20:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bob Birt is currently offline Bob BirtFriend
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Bump. Same issue.

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Re: Handling the tab character in XML data sources [message #787451 is a reply to message #786791] Tue, 31 January 2012 15:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
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Bob,

Can you look at formatting the data items to preserve white space? See
this thread:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/tree/154512/#page_top

Jason

On 1/30/2012 3:25 PM, Bob Birt wrote:
> Bump. Same issue.

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Re: Handling the tab character in XML data sources [message #787549 is a reply to message #787451] Tue, 31 January 2012 17:55 Go to previous message
Bob Birt is currently offline Bob BirtFriend
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That works. Thanks!


I solved this in a different, less elegant way:

1) Use a Dynamic Text field,
2) Set the Expression to the desired column field
3) Set the Content Type to HTML
4) Modify the leading spaces in the text to be  

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