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.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas Brand
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:58 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  XSL special chars output prob.
>
>
>
> hello there,
> i have a question concerning special character output.
>
> 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>
>
> in xml-spy, when trying to output &#x00, it says "not
> well-formed. invalid
> unicode char.".
>
> did i made something wrong with encoding/output method etc.?
>
> how can i solve this problem? i'd like to leave out extension
> functions if
> possible.
>
> greets to all subscirbers
>
> Thomas Brand
>
>
>
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