I see my self relying heavily on entities though, so am still interested in
how to get this to work:
It looks correct, you didn't say what didn't work.
obviously you have to use a non validating parser otherwise it will
tell you the stylesheet doesnt conform to your dtd (which only defines
an entity and no elements) but all xslt systems can use a non validating
parser.
But really in this case there is no point as you have to put all the
stuff at the top and the enity reference nbsp really isn't any easier to
type than #160.
David
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