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dave livingston

Subject: Printer Hex code help
Author: dave livingston
Date: 12 Feb 2007 08:47 PM

XML & XSLT works so well to format a text document to send to a printer, especially in the Linux world. Then we run into the problem of being able to do a simple thing such as output an escape character to be able to configure the printer. Such a simple thing that we have been doing for years...long before all of this XML hoopla.

All I want to do is put a x1b but there sure does not seem to be any easy way to day that. I've tried all kinds of &#x1b which sure seems like it should work. since it is an output for goodness sakes..but no dice...not a "legal" XML character. Sure seems like someone missed the boat on this....

Anyone have a simple method to do this?

dave

Tony Lavinio

Subject: Printer Hex code help
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 12 Feb 2007 08:53 PM

If your parser supports XML 1.1, you can use 

Otherwise, a common method is to define some other
character and put a filter on it. Suppose you decide
to use &#x7F - you could do something like this:

java -classpath saxon8.jar net.sf.saxon.Transform input.xml xform.xsl | tr '\177' '\033' | lpr

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