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Thanks Van, it's a bit more complex than this and no, I don't have elements for the non breaking characters; I have elements containing particular types of data (like versions, filenames, and so on) which I do not want to break.

I do not want to put special non-breaking characters into the XML text - the break policy is dependent on the element type and having to control it at the lowest text level is anathema. However I have been able to solve the problem in two XML stylesheets and I'll provide the solution here in case it is useful to anyone else:

In the xml2fm stylesheet (losing some punctuation so as not to upset this forum's HTML):

      xsl:template match="version | filename" xsl:copy
           xsl:value-of select="translate(translate(.,' ',' '),'-','‑')"
      /
         /xsl:copy
       /xsl:template





And the converse in the fm2xml stylesheet:

      xsl:template match="version | filename" xsl:copy
           xsl:value-of select="translate(translate(.,' ',' '),'‑','-')"
      /
         /xsl:copy
       /xsl:template





This is only OK because the elements listed (and others that I haven't included in the example) have a simple text content model. Any elements with more complex content would require a bit more work, but the same principle would work.

Thanks
T