Re: differentiation between text() and entities???

[Jens Lautenbacher <jtl at schlund dot de>]

David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> writes:

> > Actually, I don't want the &nbsp thingies to be expanded by the xml parser
> 
> well too bad, either the processor expands them or it isn't a conforming
> XMl system. Expanding entity references is what XMl parsers do.
> 
> 
> > Only that XSLT is considering that text ends before &nbsp starts, and then
> > considers &nbsp another text segment
> 
> No conforming XSLT system will do that (or even see the entity reference
> which will just be character 160 by the time the XML parser passes 
> the source tree to the xsl system)

What?  XSLT requires that all continuous text is in one continuous
text NODE?

        jtl


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