Re: Empty object

Michael Kay wrote:

> > Just want in your opinion the best way to deal with this 
> > issue so I can 
> > adopt it once and forget about it.
> >    
> My usual practice is to use numeric character references for special
> characters in XML, ie. to write it as & #xa0; rather than & nbsp;
>
> You don't need to do anything special in your stylesheet to copy the
> NBSP character to the output. There are various ways the serializer can
> render it (including as a non-breaking space, which probably won't show
> up in your text editor) but they will all have the required effect.
>
> Michael Kay
>
>
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>  
Michael,

now I am completely confused.

If my input xml file contains   I add this entity reference to my 
xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE holdspace [<!ENTITY nbsp "&nbsp;">]>

Now when I open this xml file in XMLSpy I don't get the error message 
missing entity reference..character data..etc nbsp.
Great.

Now when I run my transform that I sent you against this xml input file 
the &nbsp that are originally in the xml file of course don't appear in 
my transformed output. What I get is <OBJECT></OBJECT> instead of my 
desired result <OBJECT>&nbsp;</OBJECT>.
Obviously I have something not declared properly in my xsl. Where do I 
place <!DOCTYPE holdspace [<!ENTITY nbsp "&nbsp;">]> in my stylesheet 
given I am using a syntax of
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
   <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" 
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"; />
  
   <xsl:template match="/">
Sincerely,

Scott

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