> Actually, I don't want the &nbsp thingies to be expanded by the xml parser

well too bad, either the processor expands them or it isn't a conforming
XMl system. Expanding entity references is what XMl parsers do.


> Only that XSLT is considering that text ends before &nbsp starts, and then
> considers &nbsp another text segment

No conforming XSLT system will do that (or even see the entity reference
which will just be character 160 by the time the XML parser passes 
the source tree to the xsl system)

David


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