DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into

[Daniel S. Haischt]

hello,

this question might be likly off-topic...

i am having a stylesheets that produces some
HTML output (taking a website xml file as input).

sometimes i'll like to translate every whitespace
that occures in a plain text string into  

example:

----------8<-----------8<-----------8<----------
 This is a foobar sentence.

sould be translated into:

 This&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;foobar&nbsp;sentence.
---------->8----------->8----------->8----------

i used the XSLT translate() function to accomplish
this.

 translate('This is a foobar sentence.', ' ', '&#160;')

unfortunatly this does not produce the desired result.
so how is it possible to translate whitespaces into
&nbsp;?

With best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen

Daniel S. Haischt IT Consulting
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