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Aniceto and everyone:
This is turning into a little rat hole because no one has clarified for Aniceto that what he thinks he wants is ' ', but what he really wants is a non-breaking space. Since in his experience ' ' is the way to get a non-breaking space, that's what he thinks he wants. But any other way of getting a non-breaking space -- which would meet his requirement of cross-browser support -- would work as well. Aniceto, in your XSLT please try using ' '. (I hope you're using an e-mail client that sees I've just typed & # 1 6 0 ; except with no spaces in it.) What you will get out the back of your processor will depend on the processor and the output method you are using, but it *must* be a non-breaking space or a representation of one in one form or another. You are used to seeing its representation as ' ' but it's quite likely the space character itself. Since this is is, after all, a kind of *space*, you may not be able to "see" the character in your output file. But it should be there, and have the desired effect in your table cells. The various workarounds people have suggested may be more than you need to know right now: all will become clear as you learn the mysteries of character sets and how tangled they can be, in the present period when we are migrating (knock on wood!) from using system-dependent character encodings, to a standard (Unicode). If '&160;' does not work in your browser as a non-breaking space (remember the issue is not whether you can see it), you might tell us also which XSLT processor you are using which output method your stylesheet has set (hint: tell us both whether you have an xsl:output element, AND what the document element of your output document is ... probably <html> ...?) I hope this helps. This business about the non-breaking space is a Frequently Asked Question, which is part of the reason why although we are trying to exercise patience, we may not be systematically covering all the wrinkles in what is, after all, a complex issue to explain since we don't know what you know, or how deep to go in helping you understand and solve your problem. (This issue is also explained already in the XSL FAQ and, repeatedly, in the archives of this list.) Regards, Wendell At 10:25 AM 10/17/01, you wrote: ok maybe I din't explain my little problem about : ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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