Or, you can simply define your entity as: 
<!ENTITY nbsp "&amp;#160;">

I've done this in DTDs and had the XSL properly output &nbsp; in
the HTML.

Sara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Michael [mailto:Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 9:43 AM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: Using Entity References in XSL Templates
> 
> 
> > I know that I can define the entity at the top of the 
> stylesheet, like
> > this:
> > 
> >     <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> >     <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
> >     ]>
> > 
> > But then the stylesheet processor resolves the entity 
> reference, which
> > isn't what I want.  I want the entity reference to be 
> *passed through*
> > to the output, which I can't seem to do.  Am I missing something?
> 
> I don't see the value of outputting &nbsp; rather than &#160;, but for
> entity references less trivial than this, I think this is a 
> legitimate use
> of
> 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</text>
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
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