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[Rowlinson, Nicole SLGA] > Thanks for your replies. The only thing I am unsure of is why numeric > entities like   worked in IE 5.5, but in IE 6 it must be > changed to > <xsl:text > disable-output-escaping="yes">&nbsp;</xsl:text>. I know that > IE 6 is supposed to be more "compliant" but I'm not sure what > is wrong with > using the number code values. This is not correct. The character reference & # 160; __does__ produce a non-breaking space in IE6 (I just tried it in service pack 1). The only reason there might be a problem in displaying is a character encoding mismatch. Not only that, it must be that the character reference (& # 160;) must have been converted to an character character as the html was created, because a numerical character reference in the html file is independent of the encoding (at least, it is supposed to be!). Naturally, this would happen as the result of an xslt transformation, although if you were just typing an html file you could put the actual character reference in. Probably you are creating the html file in one encoding, and the browser is set for another, and perhaps is being told the wrong encoding. I just did a series of experiments on the display of & # 160; I put the character reference into the stylesheet as a literal. I used a meta element to tell the browser what the encoding is supposed to be. I used XML Cooktop, which runs IE to display the transformed results. I used the Microsoft msxml3 processor, which is I think what you normally have with IE6. Encoding specified Encoding specified Displayed results in xsl:output in <meta> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ iso-8859-1 utf-8 ? utf-8 iso-8859-1 A with top hat (caret) utf-8 utf-8 correct iso-8859-1 iso-8859-1 correct This is just what you would expect. BTW, the meta syntax I used is this - <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> The element needs to go into the head of the html document. Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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