RE: [xsl] forcing non breaking spaces?

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To output a non-breaking space, use   You don't need
disable-output-escaping.

I seem to recall there are CSS techniques of making sure that empty cells
get rendered properly, but I don't remember the details. 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:subsume@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 July 2006 18:59
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] forcing non breaking spaces?
> 
> I have a rather large xsl document Full of tablular data. Of 
> course, empty cells don't show up when there is nothing in 
> them so a common trick is simply to put a space there.
> 
> Is there some more elegant way of making sure a space gets 
> added after every value so that, if there is no value 
> associated with it, there is still a space?
> 
> 
> More elegant than going
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;#160;</xsl:text> 
> crazy, that is.