Re: XSL and White Space help PLEASE

>    > but if you're writing HTML then you could use the html output method
>    > and most XSL engines will then output   as  .
> 
>    Ooh, that's interesting. The one I'm using (gnome's libxslt) doesn't, at
>    least not the version I'm using, but it sounds like a good idea. Do you
>    know which ones do this?
> 
> 
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                 version="1.0"
>                 >
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> [&#160;]
> </xsl:template >
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> just tried 3, xt and saxon output as an entity reference, eg:
> 
> bash$ java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet ~/nbsp.xsl ~/nbsp.xsl 
> 
> [&nbsp;]
> bash$ 
> 
> 
> msxsl outputs it as utf8 character data (presumably because it chose not
> to recognise latin-1.
> 
> Changing that to 
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                 version="1.0"
>                 >
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="us-ascii"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> [&#160;]
> </xsl:template >
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> then msxsl outputs as &#160; (saxon outputs as &nbsp; and xt gives
> UnsupportedEncodingException) 

[uogbuji@borgia tmp]$ cat usasciixslt.xslt 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0"
                >
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="us-ascii"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
[&#160;]
</xsl:template >
</xsl:stylesheet>
[uogbuji@borgia tmp]$ cat spam.xml 
<dummy/>
[uogbuji@borgia tmp]$ 4xslt spam.xml usasciixslt.xslt 

[&nbsp;]
[uogbuji@borgia tmp]$ 


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