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Fahim Parkar
Fahim Parkar

Reputation: 31647

Error Parsing /page.xhtml: Error Traced[line: 42] The entity "nbsp" was referenced, but not declared

I'd like to use non breaking spaces in my JSF page. I know, in plain HTML I could use   for this and this works fine. However, when I put those   in a Facelets page, then it errors as follows:

Error Parsing /page.xhtml: Error Traced[line: 42] The entity "nbsp" was referenced, but not declared.

How is this caused and how can I solve it?

Upvotes: 102

Views: 84907

Answers (5)

Игорь Долгополов
Игорь Долгополов

Reputation: 141

Add below to the top of the file

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Upvotes: 11

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1109262

Facelets is a XML based view technology. XML has only five predefined entities. The &nbsp; is not among them. It works only when used in plain HTML or in legacy JSP (note: it doesn't work in JSPX as that's also XML based!).

To fix this, you either need to declare the entity yourself in the doctype of the very XHTML file containing the &nbsp; entity,

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

or, better, use the (hexa)decimal notation instead:

&#xA0; or &#160;

In an average IDE it should be trivial to perform a "find and replace in all files" and replace every occurrence of &nbsp; by &#xA0;.

Upvotes: 203

Oleg Khaschansky
Oleg Khaschansky

Reputation: 296

For me the following doctype enables &nbsp;:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Upvotes: 15

Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf

Reputation: 1611

  1. <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> should work fine. This does not work inside attribute value, though.

  2. Alternatively, as long as &amp; is a predefined entity in XML, you could try &amp;nbsp; - worked for me with XML based JSP. This should work within attributes as well.

Upvotes: 9

Sanjeevi.V
Sanjeevi.V

Reputation: 643

Try using &amp;#160;. for more information on entities you can refer following url HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference

Upvotes: 14

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