xml - How to handle HTML entity nbsp in XSLT. Without changing the input file

Question

I am trying to convert an HTML file into XML file using XSLT (Using Oxygen 9.0 for transformation).

When I configure and run the XSLT transformation with the HTML file then Oxygen outputs

The entity 'nbsp' was referenced,but not declared.

My input html file is:

<div><span>&nbsp;some text</span></div>

Note: I want to know how handle that entity only using the XSLT, I don't want to make any changes to the input file.

Answer 1

As far as I know, you're going to need to make changes to the input file.

Either by changing your   to   or by declaring a custom doctype that will do the conversion for you:

<!DOCTYPE doctypeName [
   <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
]> 

This is because   isn't one of XMLs predefined entities.