Non-breaking spaces in PSV output

With this product announcement we would like to inform you that the treatment of non-breaking spaces in PSV output will be changed.

What functionality is added?

In our current export of PSV, all non-breaking spaces (html entity  ) are replaced with regular space characters in the output. The non-breaking spaces are replaced with spaces because XML does not support the   entity and replacing it with a regular space was the simplest solution at the time.

To create a more accurate export of the content, we have added support for non-breaking spaces by doing the following:

• Present day; all ' ' entities are replaced with ' '
• New enhanced functionality; all ' ' entities are replaced with '
' Unicode character references

This change will impact all customers exporting to PSV format.

When will this be applied?

This depends on how the publish action is performed:

1. For bulk publish actions (publishing one or multiple articles at once from the Studio list view): at 2024-02-08, for all Studio versions that support bulk publish. This is not influenced by installing a new Studio version as the rendering of the PSV file is performed by an update to a WoodWing Cloud service.
2. For publish actions inside the digital editor: When upgrading to the upcoming Studio 11.162 release.

How to convert to the old functionality?

Any customer that does not like the non-breaking spaces in the XML, can do a transformation to get rid of the non-breaking spaces. This would require a script to change back the '
' to ' '. This does require clean-up on the customer's end.