maybe what you're saying works, but what i want is to output HTML/text.
not equivalent unicode characters.
i need text representation of the characters   aftert XSL transform.

is this possible?

TIA!



"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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>> i have xsl to transform xml into html, and i need to put &nbsp; 
>> characters, but every way i try i get nothing or the encoded equivalent - 
>> so the characters are printed on the screen.
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>>        <xsl:when test="Status_Label=''">
>>             &nbsp; <<<<--------------- don't work in transformation.
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> &nbsp; is a reference to an entity with the name nbsp which is not defined 
> in XML. If you want to use that entity reference in a stylesheet then you 
> need to declare the entity in the stylesheet first.
> But you can simply use
>   &#160;
> instead of
>   &nbsp;
> and the result is the same, the non-breaking space character with Unicode 
> code number 160 will be inserted.
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> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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