Why do you use disable-output-escaping?

Why not just <td>&#160;</td>?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of 
> Daniel Brauer
> Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:23
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  WG: character escaping when using saxon 6.5.2 from java
> 
> 
> hi folks,
> 
> i'm trying to use saxon 6.5.2 to carry out a xslt 
> tansfomation (xml-->html)
> from within a java application. however the escaping of 
> "&nbsp" to enforce
> empty table cells doesn't work.
> 
> this is an excerpt from the xslt-file:
> 
>                <tr>
>                   <td>
>                      <xsl:text
> disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
>                   </td>
>                   <td>
>                      <xsl:text
> disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
>                   </td>
>                   <td id="Text06">MWE</td>
>                   <td id="Text03" bgcolor="#FFFF99" colspan="5">
>                      <xsl:value-of select="AC_WEIGHT/OWE/MWE/WEIGHT"/>
>                   </td>
>                </tr>
> 
> 
> 
> using saxon from java give me somethin like:
> 
>       <tr><?javax.xml.transform.disable-output-escaping ?>
> 
>         <td>&amp;nbsp;<?javax.xml.transform.enable-output-escaping ?>
> </td><?javax.xml.transform.disable-output-escaping ?>
> 
>         <td>&amp;nbsp;<?javax.xml.transform.enable-output-escaping ?>
> </td>
>         <td id="Text06">MWE</td>
>         <td id="Text03" bgcolor="#FFFF99" colspan="5">642.07</td>
>       </tr>
> 
> 
> 
> whereas using saxon from the command line (i.e. java ...) gives me:
> 
>          <tr>
>             <td>&nbsp;</td>
>             <td>&nbsp;</td>
>             <td id="Text06">MWE</td>
>             <td id="Text03" bgcolor="#FFFF99" colspan="5">642.07</td>
>          </tr>
> 
> 
> 
> i'd appreciate any help - thanks.
> 
> regards
> Daniel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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