Hi everybody,

How to create a blank space in XSLT? I used #160; When I use .NET iT displays  Character in the blank sapce
 I have tried
#x20; and it does not produce ? but does not create a space.

Please Help me

You can create a single space using

<xsl:text> </xsl:text>

or if you prefer greater visibility,

<xsl:text>#x20;</xsl:text>

Note that if you are generating HTML, multiple spaces in the HTML file will display as a single space in the browser.

You can create a non-breaking space using

#xa0; (or #160;)

This does not require an xsl:text element because it is not treated as whitespace by the XSLT processor.

If the non-breaking space displays incorrectly when you view the resulting HTML (either in a browser or in a text editor - you didn't say which) then this is because your configuration is set up incorrectly. It looks as if you have generated the HTML in UTF-8 encoding, and have then displayed it using software that thinks the encoding is iso-8859-1 or something similar (perhaps Microsoft cp1252).

One way to avoid such encoding problems is to specify <xsl:output encoding="us-ascii">. This will force a non-ASCII character such as NBSP to be output as a chararacter reference or entity reference.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]></xsl:text>

Each <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> creates one blank space. I tried all the other suggestions on the internet and this was the only one that worked for me. I hope this helps!

I don't know if you were intentionally contributing to a thread that's been dormant for six years. But in any case, your contribution is unhelpful; this mess of disable-output-escaping and CDATA is totally unnecessary.

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Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference