298888 - XSLT engine : <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98168

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[x2uk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

XSLT engine : <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

Output produced : &nbsp; (literally!)

Output expected : non breaking space

Performs well for other XSLT processors such as IE, Altova, etc : 
- XSL version : 1, XSL vendor : Microsoft, XSL vendor URL : http://www.microsoft.com
- Altova : XSL version : 1.0, XSL vendor : Altova GmbH, XSL vendor URL :
http://www.altova.com

Doesn't perform well for FireFox : 
- XSL version : 1, XSL vendor : Transformiix, XSL vendor URL :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text> in your xsl
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Output produced : &nbsp; (literally!)



Expected Results:  
Output expected : non breaking space

Performs well for other XSLT processors such as IE, Altova, etc : 
- XSL version : 1, XSL vendor : Microsoft, XSL vendor URL : http://www.microsoft.com
- Altova : XSL version : 1.0, XSL vendor : Altova GmbH, XSL vendor URL :
http://www.altova.com

Doesn't perform well for FireFox : 
- XSL version : 1, XSL vendor : Transformiix, XSL vendor URL :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/


You ought to introduce xml - matters for the COMPONENT specification.
XML is a major component.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

(In reply to comment #0)
> You ought to introduce xml - matters for the COMPONENT specification.
> XML is a major component.

The "Core" product on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi has an XML
component (and an XSLT component), the "Firefox" product should only be used for
bugs in Firefox specific code such as user interface problems, etc.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98168 ***

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Workaround:

Rather then using the very long
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

just type
&#160;


Works just fine in all browsers and doesn't rely on optional parts of the spec.