I know what you mean about the weird breaking on spaces & stretching beyond the window -- that's why I ended up doing what I did, changing the form field to be multi-values.  I'll give your solution a shot the next time I bump into this -- thanks!

 

But I wonder if you couldn't just use the converters & instead of doing:

 

                    <xp:this.converter>
                            <xp:customConverter>
                                <xp:this.getAsObject><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Explode(value,"\n");}]]></xp:this.getAsObject>
                                <xp:this.getAsString><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Implode(value,"\n");}]]></xp:this.getAsString>
                            </xp:customConverter>
                        </xp:this.converter>

 

you could do something like this:

 

                        <xp:this.converter>
                            <xp:customConverter>
                                <xp:this.getAsObject><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Explode(value,"\n");}]]></xp:this.getAsObject>
                                <xp:this.getAsString><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Replace(@Implode(value,"\n");" ";"&nbsp;");}]]></xp:this.getAsString>
                            </xp:customConverter>
                        </xp:this.converter>

 

Not sure if you'd have to alter the getAsObject part as well to get it back into the Notes field properly.  Haven't tried this so I don't know if it would work.

Unfortunately, getItemValue yields the same results:  line breaks ignored.

 

When I "View Source," the text is formatted perfectly.  But not in the browser display itself.

First, make sure you aren't in compatibility mode in IE.  Compatibility mode can wreak havoc with CSS & the box model.  I would test this strictly in Firefox & use Firebug to look at the source when it's rendered.

 

And, lastly, you know what I'm going to say ... Since a single-value text field with embedded line breaks is causing you such grief during display, you really may have to consider at least temporarily storing it in a proper multi-value text field for display/editing -- you can save it back to your single-value text field on save.

 

I'm done.

Thanks so much for everyone's help!

 

I tried storing the formatted text in a Rich Text field.  The carriage returns displayed on the web, but spaces and bolding were added randomly.

 

So my final solution was:

 

1) In the Notes form, added Input Translation to the text field that replaced @NewLine with "<BR>" and blank spaces with "^"

 

2) In the Xpage, used a Computed Field (HTML) that replaced the "^" with a blank space.

 

var temp=AnalysisDoc.getItemValueString("Representation");
temp.replace("^", " ");

 

The formatting comes across perfectly now.

 

 Mark

 

(BTW: I've used Domino/Notes 8.5.2FP3)

Thanks, Mark!  When I saw your post I thought, "Haven't I already tried that combination?", but then tried it again, and it worked perfectly.

 

I'm new to Xpages, and think I lost confidence and started flailing around early instead of just calming down and figuring out the elements.

 

SO MUCH BETTER than messing with the data... thanx mucho mucho for taking the time to work through it and respond.

 

Sally