I had the same problem - I used the hex equivalent of   which works
without issue.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nicole Giampapa [SMTP:NGiampapa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, December 29, 2000 10:20 AM
> To:	'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:	 forcing nbsp; to appear in html output
> 
> Sorry to ask such a simple question, but I'm stumped. I'm using MSXML3
> processor, and I can't get this to work. I need to have a non-breaking
> space
> in my html output, because I have users accessing the site using Netscape
> 4.72, and if a cell in the table is empty, it doesn't display the
> appropriate blue cell background.
> 
> I found this reference in the book and tried the following:
> 
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
> 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
> 
> This parses without error, but when I look at the output in Netscape,
> there's no <<&nbsp;>> there, there's just a blank space, so my cell is
> still
> blank.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Nicole
> 
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