RE: [xsl] how to outupt data in hex

["Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>]

The questioner wanted to translate "A" into "0x65". There's no way in XSLT
of obtaining the numeric Unicode code for a given character. They weren't
asking to output an XML character entity such as "e"

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> Clapham, Paul
> Sent: 27 March 2001 17:43
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] how to outupt data in hex
>
>
> Aren't Chinese characters valid in XML?  (That was the
> original question's
> context.)  Your book on p.62 says that any Unicode character
> between #x21
> and #xD7FF or between #xE000 and #xFFFD is an acceptable
> character.  So it
> seems to me that outputting Chinese characters should work,
> if you write
> #x3C5D or whatever the correct Unicode representation might be.
>
> PC2
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhkay@iclway.co.uk]
> Sent: March 27, 2001 00:59
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] how to outupt data in hex
>
>
> > my question is: is there any function/way does XML/XSLT that
> > outputs the
> > contents in Hex?
> > example
> >
> > <data>
> > ABC
> > <data>
> >
> > the output is:
> > 0x650x660xb7
> >
> You'll need an extension function for this.
> Or consider writing a back-end ContentHandler to do the final
> processing.
>
> Mike Kay
> Software AG
>
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