Question

All,

I am attempting to place spaces/indent text in a column in my HTML table. I am reading a XML file using XSLT 1.0 and writing it to a HTML file. I have tried the following:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-16'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="utf-16"/>

<tr>
  <td/>
  <td>
    <xsl:text xml:space="preserve">&#160;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('Substantiation-', 
                    @sourceID, ' (', current(), ')')"/>
  </td>
</tr>

The results when viewed in Internet Explorer (opened from the generated html file) looks like:

 Substantiation-9010 (p 1-5, Para 1-10.)

I have also tryed 	,  , and   it has similar or no results.

I am assuming that I have an encoding issue (thanks to Michael Kay for pointing that out), however I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong since I am specifing the encoding in the output tag. Does anyone know how to either add space/tab so it looks correct when viewed in IE?

Thank you for your help!!!

Answer 1

I couldn’t get the spaces to show up correctly. Everything suggested here from what I read should have worked. However, it wasn’t for me. I ended up using an image with a transparent background.

 <img src="OnePixel.gif" width="15" height="5" align="left"/>