Re: xslt newbie- inserting spaces

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Subject: Re: xslt newbie- inserting spaces
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 13:14:41 -0400

At 2003-08-15 15:26 -0600, Bruce Rojas-Rennke wrote:

  I'm wanting to insert spaces via my xslt stylesheet, so the html output
has some blank spaces where I want them.

All I've read suggests that i can just include this :
<xsl:text>   </xsl:text>

- doesn't work for me,

Probably because HTML collapses normal spaces.

nor do these variants help:

<xsl:text>    </xsl:text>

You don't say what error messages you are getting, but the above should work, provided you have the following at the top of your stylesheet:

  <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet
  [
  <!ENTITY nbsp "&#xa0;">
  ]>

Alternatively, you could just do:

<xsl:text>    </xsl:text>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">

That is irrelevant in your situation and in any case should be avoided and only used as a very last resort.

The key is to establish, probably manually, in a standalone HTML file exactly what markup you need to get the effect you want, and then you'll know what markup you need in your stylesheet to get the desired result.

I hope this helps.

...................... Ken


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xslt newbie- inserting spaces Bruce Rojas-Rennke - Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:25:29 -0400 (EDT) Wendell Piez - Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:08:45 -0400 (EDT) G. Ken Holman - Sat, 16 Aug 2003 13:16:02 -0400 (EDT) <= <Possible follow-ups> Martinez, Brian - Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:17:09 -0400 (EDT)

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