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<h1>saxon:entity-ref</h1>
<p>The saxon:entity-ref element is useful to generate entities such as &nbsp; in HTML output.
To do this, write:</p>
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<code><saxon:entity-ref name="nbsp"/></code>
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<p><b>Note:</b> the preferred way to produce a non-breaking space character in the output is
simply to write <code>&#160;</code> or <code>&#xa0;</code> in the stylesheet. By
default, with HTML output, this will be serialized as <code>&nbsp;</code>, though the
way it is serialized doesn't actually matter as far as the HTML browser is concerned.</p>
<p><code>saxon:entity-ref</code> is permitted only in contexts where <code>disable-output-escaping</code>
would be permitted: that is, when writing to a serialized output destination.</p>
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