You can probably force your processor to use either the entity reference
or a character reference such as   in the output by using
<xsl:output encoding="us-ascii"/>.
Note with MSXML, however, this only affects the output if you are using
the XSLT processor's serializer, not the DOM's serializer, and if you
are outputting to a byte stream rather than a character stream.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
John Aschenbrenner
Sent: 26 September 2002 02:07
To: 'xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com'
Subject: [xsl] Problems rendering nbsp entity
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.
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 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 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> 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 -
Much Thanks in Advance,
John Aschenbrenner
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