Using an HTML entity in XSLT (e.g.  )

Question

What is the best way to include an html entity in XSLT?

<xsl:template match="/a/node">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    <xsl:text>&nbsp;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

this one returns a XsltParseError

Answer 1

You can use CDATA section

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

or you can describe &nbsp in local DTD:

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;"> ]>

or just use   instead of