Re: Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips, #5

[David Carlisle]

>
> > Not necessarily.  If you use output escaping to place the ***text
> > characters*** " " into your output
>
> but the so called "top tip" doesn't warn that
>
> a) an XSL processor may ignore disable-output-escaping
> and
> b) The resulting document will not be well formed XML unless a suitable
> <!DOCTYPE is specified
> and that
> c) if the html output method is being used, many systems will output
> &nbsp; anyway so the whole issue is moot.
>

Agreed on all counts, I was just pointing out alternatives.  I use &#160;
myself, and have no problems with anything I run.

Cheers,

Tom P


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