> From: Bruce Rojas-Rennke [mailto:brr@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:26 PM
> Subject:  xslt newbie- inserting spaces
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
>   I'm back like a bad rash. Here's a question I'm sure has 
> been asked but
> can't seem to traverse in the archives.
> 
>   I'm wanting to insert spaces via my xslt stylesheet, so the 
> html output
> has some blank spaces where I want them.
> 
> All I've read suggests that i can just include this :
> <xsl:text>   </xsl:text>

This will collapse to a single space in most user agents when rendering
HTML.

> - doesn't work for me,
> 
> nor do these variants help:
> 
>   <xsl:text>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</xsl:text>

XSLT processors don't recognize most named character entities.  Try &#160;
instead.

>   <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">

If you've read the list for a while, you probably know how most of the gurus
regard d-o-e.  It's also not guaranteed to work in every implementation.

hth,
b.

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