saxon:entity-ref
The saxon:entity-ref element is useful to generate entities such as
in HTML output. To do this, write: <saxon:entity-ref
name="nbsp"/>
Category: instruction
Content: none
Permitted parent elements:
any XSLT element whose content model is sequence
constructor; any literal result element
Attributes
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The name of the entity |
Details
Note that the preferred way to produce a non-breaking space character in the output is
simply to write   or   in the stylesheet. By
default, with HTML output, this will be serialized as , though the
way it is serialized doesn't actually matter as far as the HTML browser is concerned.
The element saxon:entity-ref is permitted only in contexts where
disable-output-escaping would be permitted: that is, when writing to a
serialized output destination.