> I'd agree where you want to use nbsp in the stylesheet,
> except that processing html via tidy, I often
> see those nbsp's in droves, which makes it necessary to 
> define the entity. Hard graft when its dozens of input files 
> to add it there? <grin>No, I don't want the sed script thank 
> you very much Mr C </grin>

You can turn that off I think:

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#quote-nbsp

Doctype's are pain and should be avoided at all costs :)