You're welcome.  Just as an FYI, the form widget automatically converts line 
breaks to <br /> tags for display fields but freemarker won't so if you intend 
on displaying them via a template you'd need to manually replace them prior to 
rendering. Something like ${theText?replace("\n", "<br />")}

Regards
Scott

HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

On 15/12/2010, at 11:53 AM, Jeremy Olmstead wrote:

> You are correct.  When I put <br> in for the breaks it took them literally.
> When I just left the breaks alone they imported correctly.  Thank you!
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com>wrote:
> 
>> If I'm not wrong then you shouldn't need to do anything special, the line
>> breaks would be included in the xml during export, such as:
>> <![CDATA[Here
>> are
>> many
>> line
>> breaks.]]>
>> 
>> And then those same link breaks would arrive into the OFBiz database during
>> import.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Scott
>> 
>> HotWax Media
>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>> 
>> On 15/12/2010, at 9:22 AM, Jeremy Olmstead wrote:
>> 
>>> What I meant is that I have a database outside of ofbiz with a long text
>>> field that includes line breaks.  I am building the xml files outside of
>>> ofbiz for importing into the ofbiz database.  How can I code the xml file
>> so
>>> that ofbiz imports the data with the same line breaks as from the
>> original
>>> database field?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeremy
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:07 PM, BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> in ofbiz, what is the requirement of having line beaks in xml.
>>>> if you talking about
>>>> <>linebreak
>>>> <>
>>>> this is not necessary for importing.
>>>> if you want to do this get an xml editor that will format the xml file.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> =========================
>>>> BJ Freeman
>>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation  <
>>>> http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52>
>>>> Specialtymarket.com  <http://www.specialtymarket.com/>
>>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist
>>>> 
>>>> Chat  Y! messenger: bjfr33man
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Jeremy Olmstead sent the following on 12/14/2010 12:02 PM:
>>>> 
>>>> If I have a text field that I want to import from an xml file, how do I
>>>>> code
>>>>> line breaks in the xml file?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jeremy
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 

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