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Re: outputting spaces in html table cells
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- Subject: Re: outputting spaces in html table cells
- From: "Maulik Modi" <mxmodi at duke-energy dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:28:21 -0500
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Is there a FAQ or a list of all the numbered characters and what the codes refer
to.
Thanks,
Maulik
PS: Bet you this is probably a FAQ too, but I could not find it.
Ladioss:
Use   for a non-breaking space. Your XML parser does not pick up the
named entity because it hasn't been declared. But a numbered
character reference (which is what   is) will be recognized -- #160 is
a non-breaking space.
You can even declare nbsp in an internal subset of your stylesheet if you
want a friendlier representation of the character.
I'd bet this is a FAQ.
Enjoy,
Wendell
At 09:59 PM 8/25/00 GMT, you wrote:
>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?
>
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