RE:  

Subject: RE:  
From: Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:24:32 -0600
> I simply need to be able to place some code in either the DTD 
> or the XSL that allows me to generate entities such as &nbsp;
> in my HTML. [...] I just keep on getting &amp;nbsp; in my HTML 
> and its wearing me a little thin.

Someone already posted the how. Here's some more info that will help explain
why.

You are not, in your XSL, literally saying what you want in the tangible
output. You're saying, using XML (well-formed HTML, in your case), what you
want the result tree (intangible) to have in it. Tangible output (which can
be in any format) will be derived from this result tree by the XSL
processor, possibly in a format that you have hinted at via the result-ns.

So your goal, really, is not to put the 6-characters & n b s p ; into the
HTML. It is to put Unicode character number 160 (a non-breaking space) in
your result tree, and then have faith that the XSL processor, when
outputting an interpretation of the result tree as HTML 4.0, will substitute
&nbsp; for that character on its own.

When you insist on putting all 6 characters & n b s p ; in the result tree,
&amp;nbsp; in the XSL actually does suffice. The problem is that when this
result tree is externalized as HTML 4.0, the & character is replaced with
the 5 characters & a m p ; by the XSL processor. Hence, &amp;nbsp; keeps
appearing in your HTML.

-Mike


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