[xsl] How to produce   using XSL

Subject: [xsl] How to produce   using XSL
From: Valer-Alin Crisan <valer_crisan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:18:47 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,

I need to generate HTML pages from XML files using PHP and I
am unable to produce the text "&nbsp;" into the generated output
using PHP XLS processor that is based on libxslt. The same problem
happens when I use xsltproc tool.

I could not figure out how to solve this by reading the posts at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/nbsp.html. Any idea is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Here are the details:

xsltproc version:
===========
$ xsltproc --version
Using libxml 20632, libxslt 10124 and libexslt 813
xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20632, libxslt 10124 and libexslt 813
libxslt 10124 was compiled against libxml 20632
libexslt 813 was compiled against libxml 20632

XSL file:
======
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY nbsp " ">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";;>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="no" encoding="iso-8859-1" media-type="text/html"/>
<xsl:template match="/doc">
<HTML>
  <BODY>
    <table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></table>
  </BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

XML input file:
======
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<doc></doc>

XSLTPROC output:
==============
$ xsltproc simple.xsl simple.xml
<HTML><BODY><table><tr><td>
</td><td>
</td><td></td></tr></table></BODY></HTML>

Expected output:
===========
At least one of the td elements should contain the &nbsp; text.

Thanks,
Valer

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