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

Question

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

Answer 1

Facelets is a XML based view technology. XML has only five predefined entities. The   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   entity,

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

  or  

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