Re: MSXML / NBSP problem and resolution

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Subject: Re: MSXML / NBSP problem and resolution
From: Greg Faron <gfaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:35:47 -0700

At 11:39 AM 11/7/2002, you wrote:

> The original problem was how to get an nbsp / #160 or equivalent into
> the output, in order to make a table render correctly.  (<td/> or <td>
> </td> renders differently than <td>&#160;</td>.)

well that's easy: just put <td>&#160;</td> and it will work in any
encoding, so long as you don't confuse IE by telling it the file is in
an encoding that it isn't by forcing a latin 1 meta tag when the file is
in utf16. (or having your server specify that the file is in latin1
which is the default html encoding for text/html, I think)

Just to chime in, I've had issues with this using XML Spy 4.4 to convert files (via MSXML 4). First, any occurrence of   in the XSL Stylesheet gets replaced with just a space character during processing, so a stylesheet line of <td> </td> creates the output <td> </td> This poses an issue within XML Spy since the auto-indent editing feature will truncate the latter to <td/>, but not the former. Furthermore, the stylesheet complains if you use   instead, saying that the entity is not defined in a DTD.

Finally, the META tag that it _always_ generates _never_ has a closing tag, so it's essentially generating malformed XML. Example from one of my XSL transformations: <html> <head> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Variable on One Side</title> ...

BTW, it's also a shame that MSXML ignores the "indent" attribute of xsl:output, but that's something else altogether.


Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.

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