Most likely you are seeing garbage characters because your stylesheet
is outputting the characters in UTF-8 and your client is reading them
in some other encoding.

You can either change your output encoding using xsl:output, or make
sure that a proper META element is being generated in your output with
your encoding (your processor should do this if you are using
<xsl:output method="html"/>

Josh

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:08:44 -0400, michael.s.eberhart@xxxxxxxxxxx
<michael.s.eberhart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> I would like to my xslt code to create a whitespace for display on the web
> page.  I am using the following code:
> 
> <td>&#160;</td>
> 
> and
> 
> <td>&#xa0;</td>
> 
> Both ways have failed, creating garbage characters instead of spaces.