nbsp in XSLT files

  • Posted by justin on September 28, 2004
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It is not predefined. Only < > & " ' are predefined.
You can either use   or  , or you can define an entity like nbsp
for the same.

Try:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="article/b2/tekst">
    <tr>
      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
      <td>
        <xsl:value-of select="./@author"/>
      </td>
      <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

EXSLT.NET 1.1 released

  • Posted by justin on September 14, 2004
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I have not tried this implementation but I have used other xslt extensions.

EXSLT.NET library is community-developed free open-source implementation of the EXSLT extensions to XSLT for the .NET platform. EXSLT.NET fully implements the following EXSLT modules: Dates and Times, Common, Math, Random, Regular Expressions, Sets and Strings. In addition EXSLT.NET library provides proprietary set of useful extension functions.

Download EXSLT.NET 1.1 at the EXSLT.NET Workspace home - http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/exslt
EXSLT.NET online documentation - http://www.xmland.net/exslt

EXSLT.NET Features:

  • 65 supported EXSLT extension functions
  • 13 proprietary extension functions
  • Support for XSLT multiple output via exsl:document extension element
  • Can be used not only in XSLT, but also in XPath-only environment
  • Thoroughly optimized for speed implementation of set functions

Here is what's new in this release:

  • New EXSLT extension functions has been implemented: str:encode-uri(), str:decode-uri(), random:random-sequence().
  • New EXSLT.NET extension functions has been implemented: dyn2:evaluate(), which allows to evaluate a string as an XPath expression, date2:day-name(), date2:day-abbreviation(), date2:month-name() and date2:month-abbreviation() - these functions are culture-aware versions of the appropriate EXSLT functions.
  • Support for time zone in date-time functions has  been implemented.
  • Multithreading issue with ExsltTransform class has been fixed. Now ExsltTransform class is thread-safe for Transform() method calls just like the  System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform class.
  • Lots of minor bugs has been fixed. See EXSLT.NET bug tracker for more info.
  • We switched to Visual Studio .NET 2003, so building of the project has been greatly simplified.
  • Complete suite of NUnit tests for each extension function has been implemented (ExsltTest project).