RE: [xsl] nbsp (in parameter) question

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am passing a parameter to a xsl stylesheet which outputs HTML. This 
> param is simply printed by the stylesheet.
> 
> The problem is that the data i am passing to this param is something 
> like this
> 
> UserName : XYZ nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Company Name : ZZZ
> 
> That whole String is one parameter, and i want it to be 
> printed out like 
> this :
> 
> UserName : XYZ Company Name : ZZZ
> 
> Note, that it must be printed with spaces in between.
> 
> I know i can replace nbsp; with   while passing the 
> parameter data. But this is not working. The output i get in 
> that case is :
> 
> UserName : XYZ     Company Name : ZZZ
> 
> The conversion of   to a space is not happening.
> 

The conversion of   to a non-breaking space is done by an XML
parser. When you pass a string as a parameter to the stylesheet, it is
never processed by an XML parser, so XML character references are not
substituted. You will have to work out how to generate a string
containing this character in your chosen programming language: if you
are using Java, you can write it as "\u00a0".

Michael Kay
Software AG
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