Re: monotonous nbsp coding

XSLT doesnt define  

>But since an XSLT stylesheet is just an XML document it is not uncommon to
> add entity declarations to the start of the stylesheet:

> <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
agreed ... you can do that way..in which case its not required that it be
"nbsp".

> That is no different than <xsl:text> </xsl:text> except that your example
> is not well-formed because of the missing reference-end delimiter ";".
Yeah!! Sorry about the missing ';'

----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: Re:  monotonous nbsp coding


> At 2002-11-27 16:04 +0000, Vasu Chakkera wrote:
> > >     <xsl:otherwise>&nbsp;</xsl:otherwise>
> >you cant do this in XSL.. XSL doesnt define that entity reference..
>
> But since an XSLT stylesheet is just an XML document it is not uncommon to
> add entity declarations to the start of the stylesheet:
>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet
> [
> <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
> <!ENTITY copy "&#169;">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" ...
>
> Then you can use &nbsp; in your stylesheet.  The other declaration above
is
> for the copyright symbol.  The example is excerpted from our training
> material stylesheets.
>
> >you may want to use <xsl:text>&#x20</xsl:text> to output space.
>
> That is no different than <xsl:text> </xsl:text> except that your example
> is not well-formed because of the missing reference-end delimiter ";".
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> ................ Ken
>
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