Re: [xsl] Entities in XSL (again)

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/02/2010 06:04, Terry Badger wrote:
> To all,
> Sorry my first message got scrambled.
> I thought I had this working but seem to have a problem in Oxygen 11 using Saxon 6.5 in that the nbsp entity is not being recognized in the stylesheet. Works OK if defined in the XML instance. What am I doing wrong?
> The XML
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> The XSL<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>
> Terry
>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">  ]>
> <xsl:stylesheetxmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"version="1.0";>
> <xsl:outputencoding="utf-8"indent="yes"method="html"/>
> <xsl:templatematch="/">
> <xsl:copy-ofselect="."/>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> <wrapper>This is a&nbsp; sample</wrapper>

I can't see anything wrong (other than what I assume is a bad mailer 
problem eating all the spaces between attributes) , but why do it 
anyway, &nbsp; isn't any easier to type than &#160; and the latter 
doesn't require all the doctype setup.

David