RE: non-breaking whitespace

Hi,

> What is the correct (or preferred) method of making a
> stylesheet which outputs html (i.e., <xsl:output 
> method="html"/>) to include
> a "non-breaking whitespace" in its result?
Umm... all methods will output it if you create a text node in the result tree 
that contains a NO-BREAK SPACE.
 
> I have experimented with all of the following, which
> most faqs recommend, and none work.  I am using libxslt.
>
> &#160;
>
> <xsl:text>&#160</xsl:text>
Trailing SEMICOLON missing.

> &#xA0;
>
> <xsl:text>&#xA0</xsl:text>
Again.

> Finally, I managed to get
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text> to work.
Oh, you want the general entity nbsp. If you absolute need to have the general 
entity, then d-o-e is the only way, *if* your processor doesn't output NO-BREAK 
SPACE characters using the nbsp entity. But you shouldn't need to care whether 
you have &nbsp;, &160;, &#xA0;, or   (NO-BREAK SPACE character as such), 
they're all the same character in the end (unless you've defined a entity with 
the name nbsp that doesn't map to NO-BREAK SPACE).

Cheers,

Jarno - Feindflug: Vollstreckung

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