Thanks, Jarno. I've tried both utf-8 and utf-16 with the same results. I
know that NO-BREAK SPACE does look like a space but it sure would be great
if I could just output a ' '.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jarno(_dot_)Elovirta(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com
[mailto:Jarno(_dot_)Elovirta(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:07 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Problems rendering nbsp entity
Hi,
I know I've seen this before but I can't seem to find it in
the archives.
My apologies if this has been answered one too many times.
It probably has been, yes.
In the past when I wanted to render a non blanking space when
using XSL to
render HTML I have just used the entity  
I've even noticed that the   entity is rendered as
in the HTML
file when using the Saxon parser. Most of the time MSXML
will render this
appropriately as well. However for some reason this does not
work this time
when using that parser. Now instead of getting the nicely formatted
document that I want, I end up with question marks all over
the place. When
What encoding are you using to output the HTML? Does the editor/viewer you
are using to view the document support that encoding? Is it actually using
that encoding?
I look at the HTML that was rendered there are no actual
question marks in
it just blank spaces where I wanted the to be. I am
Well... NO-BREAK SPACE does look awfully lot like a SPACE.
assuming that
for each question mark rendered I am seeing the space.
Now after all that............
Is there a way when using MSXML to get it to return the
actual entity
in the rendered HTML instead of some space character. For
example instead
of <td> </td> have it render this <td> </td>
Output the document using an encoding that does not contains NO-BREAK SPACE,
e.g. US-ASCII.
The problem as many know with using the entity as a
literal in XSL is
that it is not defined. Also, I do not really want to output
it as a non
blank space in the HTML but rather render it directly as is -
Erm... why?
Jarno
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