NBSP in Html output

[Tim Voet]

Hi everyone. Its been a while since i have been on the forum, its good to be back.
here is my question. I am getting into XSL, and XSLT transformations...
i am having a problem when i put my XML through my transformer. when it generates my Html output, i would like to put a non-breaking space intead of a null value. The null value is very ugly to look at when you open the Html in a browser.
does anyone have a suggestion or a trick that i am missing.
thanks
Tim

[Mapraputa Is]

Similar question was asked here: http://www.coderanch.com/t/125062/XML/add-nbsp-XSL-rule
HTH

[Balaji Loganathan]

Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
HTH

HTH means ?

[Mapraputa Is]

HTH = Hope This Helps

[Tim Voet]

that isn't quite want i want to know. I had found that post when i did a search. what i want is more something like this

 <xsl:for-each select="movieList/movie">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="owner"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@format"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="available"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="borrowedby"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="comment"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each> 

and what i want to do is when one of the value-of return values returns null, i want to put a B]& nbsp ;[/B] in the html.
for this reason i don't think that the entity reference will help. My output is generated completely, but to anyone who has ever worked with HTML, will know that if you don't put a blank space in a empty table cell, the border does not show around that cell, and screws up the look of the page.
thanks anyways for the direction you pointed me in.

[Balaji Loganathan]

You can use xsl:if or xsl:choose,xsl:when for testing conditions.
for example

 <xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="normalize-space(title)">
  <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
   <td>#&160;</td>
 </xsl:otherwise> 
 </xsl:choose>

this will avoid borderless table or something.
[ July 10, 2002: Message edited by: Mapraputa Is ]

[Balaji Loganathan]

Hi Map & Micheal,
There is some error is UBB code on using [ code ] tag..
I think this is not solved in JLive forum also

[Tim Voet]

thanks for the input.
does this mean i should code a function for normalize-space?? or is this an already supported feature.
I really appreciate the help.
Tim

[Balaji Loganathan]

Its already supported feature,just try to use it in ur code.

[Tim Voet]

thanks.
will try it tonight when i get home.
Tim

[Tim Voet]

thanks Balaji.
it works....i had forgot that i had put my code on my FTP Server.
thanks for your help everyone.
Tim

[Mapraputa Is]

Balaji, what do you mean "There is some error is UBB code on using [ code ] tag.." - smiles on XSL tags? I turned off smiles in your post.
Tim, if yu do not mind extra blank after your data, you probably can just put &nbsp after <xsl:value-of="..."/>
[ July 10, 2002: Message edited by: Mapraputa Is ]

[Balaji Loganathan]

Hi,
Sorry,I'm so stupid,forgot to turn off the smiles.Thanks.

Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
smiles on XSL tags? I turned off smiles in your post.
[ July 10, 2002: Message edited by: Mapraputa Is ]

[Tim Voet]

thanks for your help both of you.....i tried putting the space after everything, and it looked ok, but i wanted to try the other method to see, and it worked well.
thanks again...