RE: character special

There is no way in XSLT of manipulating characters that are illegal in
XML, such as x12.

The best solution is to generate some legal representation of this
character (some people use a processing instruction such as <?x12?>) and
then post-process the output.

Michael Kay


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> Sent: 10 July 2003 15:36
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> Subject:  character special
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> 
> i want to output this character(for drawing table):
>  which has the 18 as ascii code.
> so i use :
> <xsl:text>&#18;</xsl:text>
> but i receive this error :
> Character reference "&#12" is an invalid XML character.
> in my xsl file i have:
> <xsl:output method="text" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
> indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
> 
> 
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