using a html entity in xslt (e.g.  )

what is the best way to include a htlm entity in XSLT?

<xsl:template match="/a/node">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    <xsl:text>&nbsp;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

this one returns a XsltParseError

From stackoverflow Pierre Spring

• You can use CDATA section

  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]></xsl:text>
  

  or you can describe &nbsp in local DTD:

  <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;"> ]>
  

  or just use   instead of  

  From aku

• this one returns a XsltParseError

  Yes, and the reason for that is that   is not a predefined entity in XML or XSLT as it is in HTML.

  You could just use the unicode character which   stands for:  

  From Tom Lokhorst

• one other possibility to use html entities from within xslt is the following one:

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

  From Pierre Spring

• XSLT only handles the five basic entities by default: lt, gt, apos, quot, and amp. All others need to be defined as @Aku mentions.

  From samjudson

• Now that there's Unicode, it's generally counter-productive to use named character entities. I would recommend using the Unicode character for a non-breaking space instead of an entity, just for that reason. Alternatively, you could use the entity &#160;, instead of the named entity. Using named entities makes your XML dependent on an inline or external DTD.

  From James Sulak