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outputting spaces in html table cells
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- Subject: outputting spaces in html table cells
- From: "Ladioss Sopp" <ladioss at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:59:08 GMT
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Hi,
I'm a novice to XSL and my question concerns the following code:
<xsl:for-each select="listing/item">
<xsl:sort select="title"/>
<tr>
<td class="listing"> <xsl:value-of select="blah" /> </td>
<td class="listing"> <xsl:value-of select="blah2" /> </td>
<td class="listing"> <xsl:value-of select="blah3" /> </td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
There is some code before this that generates a table. This is all fine and
dandy except
that if the value of "blah" is blank, and I was outputing this to html, then
netscape would
not handle blank <td/> fields in an elegant manner because it would shift
the next column
over one to replace the blank column. Normally, I would insert an ' '
between each <td>
tag so that netscape would render a space and not ignore the cell, but as
you know, '&' is
reserved in xml. I tried &, but that doesn't render a space but rather
the real '&'
symbol. So my question is what is the best way to solve this problem? I
have searched the
list and found that perhaps I can use the disable-output-escaping="yes"
feature/hack, but I
am using the lotus xsl processor and it doesn't quite work, so I'm assuming
that this
feature is not available with the processor I'm using. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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