Re: [xsl] Using   in XSL HTML Output

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

   But if you want an
  entity or character reference in your output:

    or  

  <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> or <![CDATA[&#160;]]>


No!

They are equivalent input to
 &amp;&nbsp; ans &amp;#160;
respectively, and that's how they would be output in the xml and html
output methods (they would be output as &nbsp; and &#160; in the text
output method. (You could stop the ampersand being output as amp by using
disable-output-escaping if your system suppors thta, but taht is never
a good idea and almost always a sign that something is wrong with teh
stylesheet design)

The way to get an nbsp in html output is to get that character into the
result tree eg by going &#160; and using the html output method.
Most XSLT systems will output this character using the nbsp entity no
matter how it was input.

The way to get (say) &#160; output in the XML output method is to input
teh character as usual but output in an encoding (eg US-ASCII) that does
not have this character.

the faq for this list goes into this in more detail

David


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