Re: outputting spaces in html table cells

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ladioss:

Use   for a non-breaking space. Your XML parser does not pick up the
named entity   because it hasn't been declared. But a numbered
character reference (which is what   is) will be recognized -- #160 is
a non-breaking space.

You can even declare nbsp in an internal subset of your stylesheet if you
want a friendlier representation of the character.

I'd bet this is a FAQ.

Enjoy,
Wendell

At 09:59 PM 8/25/00 GMT, you wrote:
>I'm a novice to XSL and my question concerns the following code:
>
>    <xsl:for-each select="listing/item">
>     <xsl:sort select="title"/>
>    	<tr>
>  	    <td class="listing"> <xsl:value-of select="blah" /> </td>
>  	    <td class="listing"> <xsl:value-of select="blah2" /> </td>
>  	    <td class="listing"> <xsl:value-of select="blah3" /> </td>
>        </tr>
>    </xsl:for-each>
>
>There is some code before this that generates a table.  This is all fine and 
>dandy except
>
>that if the value of "blah" is blank, and I was outputing this to html, then 
>netscape would
>
>not handle blank <td/> fields in an elegant manner because it would shift 
>the next column
>
>over one to replace the blank column.  Normally, I would insert an '&nbsp' 
>between each <td>
>
>tag so that netscape would render a space and not ignore the cell, but as 
>you know, '&' is
>
>reserved in xml.  I tried &amp;, but that doesn't render a space but rather 
>the real '&'
>
>symbol.  So my question is what is the best way to solve this problem?
>

======================================================================
Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com
17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635
Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631
Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML
======================================================================


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list