Or if you want use the you can define the entity nbsp and use it..
You can do that but...
it means typing 60 odd characters at the top of the stylesheet to
define the entity, and the resulting entity reference isn't any
shorter than the thing it's refereing to:  
also some XML parsers will default to validating mode if they see a
doctype, and will attempt to validate the stylesheet.
David
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