> when Xalan XSLT parser encounters &nbps symbol (c#160)
> it consider it as an element, instead of text node, and throws SAXException
> with message
> "XSL Error : could not parser Input XML document !"
> "XSL Error : SAXException"
> "The element type XXX must be terminated by end-tag XXX"
> 
> the input xml is valid and it has an end-tag, however the text node is "
> &nbsp" preseneted as c#160 and if I replace it with any other character it
> works perfectly.

Did you probably forget the semicolon ';' ?
->     
    
Perhaps the parser is looking for the end of the entity and therefore
skips some end-tags ...

Just a guess.

Cheers,
Oliver


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