XSL - White Space 1

[GillyInOz]

Hello - I have 2 projects one in .net (VB.net and ASP.net) the other in VB6 and ASP - both create an XML document for transformation into HTML.

I want to use a non break white space ie & nbsp inside the XSL so at top of my document I have added the line

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [<!ENTITY nbsp &quot; &quot;>]>

folowed by the rest of my XSL statements
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;

version=&quot;1.1&quot;>

<xslutput method=&quot;xml&quot; indent=&quot;yes&quot;/>
.
.
.
etc

This all works fine in the .net project.

When I do the same in my non .net project xsl file I get this error on the transform statement.

&quot;The stylesheet does not contain a document element. The stylesheet may be empty, or it may not be a well-formed XML document. &quot;.

Also when I use XSL Debugger (v good tool u can get from from TopXML.com) I get the error message - &quot;The element 'xsl:stylesheet' is used but not declared in the DTD schema&quot;. I also get this error when using the stylesheet that works ! But the transformation doesn't

I've done a work around with padding but it justs bugs me why it doesn't work

any takers ??

thanks

Graham

 

[mulligh]

You don't need to declare it. Just use the built in entity of & #xa0 ; (remove space after & and before ; as usual)

 

[GillyInOz]

thanks - that works fine.

Thanks for your help

Graham