Check your output encoding. It sounds like you are outputting UTF-8, but your
browser is interpreting it as a single byte encoding (ISO-8859-1 perhaps?)
The character &#A0; becomes the two bytes 0xC2A0 when encoded in UTF-8 and is
left as a single byte, 0xA0, in ISO-8859-1.
When your browser reads the UTF-8 data as Windows Western character set
(ISO-8859-1) it sees two characters, the  that is the 0xC2 character, and the
no-break space, 0xA0.
Hope this helps,
Josh
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of
walter(_dot_)crockett(_at_)ascentialsoftware(_dot_)com
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:07 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] non-breaking spaces in html tables
I am using XSL to create a table in HTML. I need the cells to have borders
even when nothing is in them.
In the past I did this by adding non-breaking spaces with " ", for
example:
<td><a href="{$ConnectedTableName}.htm"><xsl:value-of
select="$ConnectedTableName"/></a> </td>
This was working fine in August, but now instead of a non-breaking space I
get an A with a little curly thing on top of it.
So I switched to:
<td><a href="{$ConnectedTableName}.htm"><xsl:value-of
select="$ConnectedTableName"/></a><xsl:text> </xsl:text></td>
This works fine when I test it in XML Spy, but still produces the strange
character when I run it in our product using MSXML4.
Has something changed in the recent versions of MSXML4 that is screwing me
up, or am I using outmoded code?
Yours,
Walter Crockett
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