Re: Emitting   to HTML Output

Johannes Koch wrote:

> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > Assuming that I want _exactly_   what's the best/neatest way to
> > do this ?
>
> <xslutput encoding="us-ascii" .../>? (Untested)

& is encoded as &amp; regardless of the encoding so this will not make any
difference.

If you really really really need to emit &nbsp; in the output, use

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

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Klaus Johannes Rusch

In article <bd9d3a$qmlmt$>,
Johannes Koch <> wrote:

>>>Assuming that I want _exactly_ &nbsp; what's the best/neatest way to
>>>do this ?

....

>No, I meant
> 
>and
><xslutput encoding="us-ascii" .../>

That should ensure that it isn't output as a literal NBSP character,
but is not likely to make it be output as &nbsp; instead of  

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Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <bd9d3a$qmlmt$>,
> Johannes Koch <> wrote:
>>No, I meant
>> 
>>and
>><xslutput encoding="us-ascii" .../>
>
>
> That should ensure that it isn't output as a literal NBSP character,
> but is not likely to make it be output as &nbsp; instead of  

At least with Saxon 6.5.2 and Xalan-J 2.5.0 when outputting HTML, it does.
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Johannes Koch
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Johannes Koch wrote:

> At least with Saxon 6.5.2 and Xalan-J 2.5.0 when outputting HTML, it does.

That is the key point: when outputting HTML, an XSLT processor can use HTML
entities, when outputting XML output it cannot, because there is no &nbsp;
entity defined in XML.

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Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <bdc0ei$r6rs7$>,
> Johannes Koch <> wrote:
>>So it is a solution for the OP's use case.
>
>
> Yes, so long as you remember that it's implementation dependent.

/me and the OP
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Klaus Johannes Rusch <> writes:

> Johannes Koch wrote:
>
> > Andy Dingley wrote:
> > > Assuming that I want _exactly_ &nbsp; what's the best/neatest way to
> > > do this ?
> >
> > <xslutput encoding="us-ascii" .../>? (Untested)
>
> & is encoded as &amp; regardless of the encoding so this will not make any
> difference.
>
> If you really really really need to emit &nbsp; in the output, use
>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

Which may or may not work. I avoid that feature since you can't depend
on it, and there's never a time (to my knowledge) that it's necessary
for producing well-formed XML with the desired effect (unless the
"desired effect" is defined to include the formatting of the source
code, in which case you're better off post-processing it anyway).

-Micah