Hi Brian,

Some belated response: Could you show us your code?

With the following RESTXQ code, all newlines should be preserved:

declare
%rest:path('in')
%output:method('html')
function local:get() {
<form action='out' method='post'>
<textarea name='text'>A{ char('\n') }B</textarea>
<input type='submit'/>
</form>
};

declare
%rest:POST
%rest:path('out')
%rest:form-param('text', '{$text}')
%output:method('html')
function local:out($text) {
<html>Codepoints: { string-to-codepoints($text) }</html>
};

Best,

Christian

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM <brian@kennison.name> wrote:

Everyone,

I’m trying to build a comment form using RESTXQ that has a texarea element. I was hoping to use the new lines from the textarea for simple formatting but when the form is submitted the request parameter is striped of all the linefeeds ( it looks like normalized text). Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks — Brian