How can I use an entity like "nbsp"?

If you try to do this:

[:div  "hello" "&nbsp;" "there"]     ;; <--- note: attempt to use an entity

then you will see the string for the entity. Which is not what you want.

Instead you should do this:

1. Require in goog's string module...

(:require [goog.string :as gstring])

2. Use it like this ...

 [:div "hello"  (gstring/unescapeEntities " ") "there"]

Note: unescapeEntities relies on the DOM to produce a string with unescape entities; in nodejs the DOM is unlikely to be available (unless you try using jsdom).

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