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How to add a new line in XML

Author: BitRock Support Date: July 21, 2009 08:50 Tags:

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Sometimes you need to add a new line ("\n") to a field in your XML project file. The correct way of doing this in XML is using the 
 escape code. Your code should look as follows:

 <addTextToFile>
    <file>${installdir}/foo.txt</file>
    <text>line1&#xA;line2&#xA;line3</text>
 </addTextToFile>

Similarly, a tab can be encoded as 	

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