John,

You might want to check that the proper entity references are
turned to INCLUDE in the ead.dtd file you are referencing--if you
have not done this already.  I am not sure this will solve your
problem, but it worked for me when I was having some trouble
referring to other character entities that are also included in
the HTML 4.0 set.

Chris

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Rees, John (NIH/NLM) wrote:

> All,
>
> Thanks to Mike, Liz and Mark for the tips. Liz and Mark's tips did produce a
> space, but I needed the actual ' ' characters to appear as a string. My
> inspiration last night was to try using hexadecimal characters in place of
> the '&'--it worked nicely. The documentation for 'disable-output-escaping'
> states it should only be used as a last resort, so I don't understand why it
> did not perform in this specific case.
>
> For those who care, IE (at least with 5.5) requires a character within
> <a></a> for anchor refs to work--&nbsp; works nicely as it is an empty
> character. I also need something there to pass our HTML validation software.
> I had been entering the string by hand after transformation. I'm using
> Cookbook stylesheets.
>
> John
>
>
> --- "Rees, John (NIH/NLM)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I'm having trouble getting the &nbsp: entity to output using XSL. From
> > XML.com, <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;</xsl:text>
> > produces the angle bracket, but I get a parse error with &nbsp;.
> > Perhaps
> > this is an XT issue?
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated.
> >
> > John
> >
> > John P. Rees
> > Associate Curator, Modern Manuscripts
> > History of Medicine Division
> > National Library of Medicine
> > 8600 Rockville Pike
> > Bethesda, MD 20894
> >
> > Phone: 301.496.8953
> > Fax: 301.402.7034
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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