maxwell wrote: > The DB5 template for head_row_column (in the file > addon/config/docbook5/docbook5_support.incl) automatically inserts a > non-breaking space char (  = U+00A0) in the <entry> elements of the > header row. This appears to be intentional, but we can't figure out why.
We don't remember why we did this. > Is it because these <entry> elements have the attr 'align="center"', and > the style sheets don't know how to handle that attr if there isn't anything > to center? I just know that when generating an HTML table, empty cells are completely omitted and thus look awkward. But this problem should be addressed by the DocBook XSLT stylesheets and not by XXE. > (They're also in the templates for <informaltable>, and both > for the "head_row" styles and the "head_row_column" styles.) > We'll check to see if there is a good reason to do this and if there is none, we'll remove the nbsp from the headers of the table templates.
