inserting special characters

[scotth4v]

Hi Gang,

How would I insert a non-breaking space into an XSL stylesheet? &quot;&nbsp;&quot; I know the <,>,&, etc. must use the &lt; etc, but what about other HTML special chars?

Also, since XSl views HTML as XML and must have all attrributes double quoted... how would I add a &quot;nowrap&quot; attrib to a table cell generated by an XSL stylesheet?

Thanks!

-Scott

 

[Tardigrade]

All special chars can be inserted as entity references. The syntax is: &#<hex of char>;

ie: nbsp is &#160; ( I think ;o)

To do things like nowrap on a table cell, put: nowrap=&quot;&quot; another situation is 'selected' on a drop down input tag.

Good Luck
--
Scott

 

[scotth4v]

Awesome, thanks... now I just need to find a table listing all of the hex values and I'll be a happy camper... I know I have one somewhere... hahah

 

[markSaunders]

the nbsp scenario is a nightmare using xsl (see other threads in here regarding white-space etc.). using the above format i think you have to encompass within <PRE> tags if you want to, say, format an empty table cell to display in 3d as the rest of the table is (see the invoice example from microsoft) - the problem here is that in the <PRE> tags means that the space is then at a [larger] fixed font size?
Mark Saunders

 

[scotth4v]

Well, I know it's a cluge, and I hate to add server requests, but I guess a 1 pixel gif would do it as well. I'm building a bucktracker with pure xsl/servlets, and I'm used to doing it all in asp/jsp, so it's a change in mindset I need to make and learn to work around the constraints of the two.

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi all,

I have <manufacturer>johnson&johnson<manufacturer>
i have tried giving<manufacturer>johnson&johnson<manufacturer>
but the value gets truncated and gives me only &quot;johnson&quot;
can anybody please help me....

 

[markSaunders]

the browser is getting confused over the ampersand - try using

&

- the same goes for quotes whereby you must use

"

Mark Saunders

 

[markSaunders]

OOPS! that didn't work try this one....

&ampamp;

Mark Saunders

 

[ivin]

Hi all. I am working on something that uses Java and XML. I have a customer's name &quot;Andy & Sons Company&quot; in my XML file. Then, I use Java to read from that XML file and put the data in a vector. I noticed that the character '&' is treated as an element on its own, thus messing up my GUI display (setting text to TextFields) when I select that customer record value from a list. Can someone show me how I can solve this problem? I dont want the special character to be treated as an element on its own.

TQ

 

[RogerFGay]

The only satisfactory solution I've found has been to avoid them completely, including using substitute characters (you can use entity references -- list at

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

) and then, if needed substitute with a pre-processor. I need them sometimes because they're useful in dynamic processing.

I'd certainly like to learn a better way if anyone knows of one.