RE: [xsl] XSL special chars output prob.

[Thomas Brand <brand at puzzle dot ch>]

hello julian,
thanks for you answer.
when using extension functions, wouldn't it be the same problem?

At 11:11 11.06.2002 +0200, you wrote:
> This is by design.
>
> XML doesn't allow any control characters except TAB, NL and LF, and
> therefore, you can't produce them with plain XSLT.
>
> >
> > the goal is to transform a given xml document (not shown here) to a file,
> > that has a strange header with special characters. if i view an example
> > output file with a hex editor, i see 7F 0D 0A 17 00 04 01 etc.
> >
> > well, why not use &#x<here the two digits> in my xsl stylesheet i
> > thought.
> > this works well for the most characters, i.e. line feed (0A). the problem
> > arises when trying to output &#x00, &#x01 etc.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; >
> >
> > <xsl:output method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
> >       <xsl:template match="/">
> >               1 &#x40;
> >               2 &#x26;
> >               3 &#x0A;
> >               4 &#x0D;
> > <!--  5 &#x00;
> >               6 &#x01;
> >               7 &#x04;
> >               7 &#x17;
> > -->
> >       </xsl:template>
> > </xsl:stylesheet>


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