Re: monotonous nbsp coding

a bit shorter:

<td>
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  <xsl:if test=". = ''">&#160;</xsl:if>
</td>

and another one:

<td>
  <xsl:value-of select="concat(., '&#160;')"/>
</td>

Regards,

Joerg

Zakon, Stuart wrote:
> Some older browsers have a problem rendering tables with empty <td> tags in
> them. (You know which ones...)
> Is there a better way to code this in XSLT than the following:
>
> <td>
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="string-length() &gt; 0"><xsl:value-of select="."
> /></xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>&nbsp;</xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </td>
>
> This gets monotonous after a while.  It would be nice if <xsl:value-of>
> could take an attribute which would provide a default value if the select
> produces an empty result!
>
> Stuart Zakon

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