XSL, tables and netscape

[Misao]

As everyone is sure to know, netscape does not display background colours in a cell when there is nothing in the cell.
I have always fixed this by using the &#nbsp;

However, xsl does not like this, and there does not seem to be a nbsp char in ascii.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

this is very frustrating for such a silly presentation issue!

[korkus2000]

The dreaded Non-Breaking Space [webmasterworld.com] in XSL. This is always a fun one.

take your pick
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
<![CDATA[&nbsp;]]>
&#160;

[Misao]

oh, ok.
It thought that they might have had some problems due to the gist of that thread.
That sure is alot better then my dodgy trans_dot.gif solution :)