Re: RE: [untitled] Generating a character with a given

From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: [untitled] Generating a character with a given numeric codepoint
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:27:22 +0100

>
> with xslt how to generate &#xxxxx; (and not &#xxxxx;)
> from <number n="xxxxx" /> ?
>

With XSLT 1.0, the only way is disable-output-escaping, or an extension
function (saxon:unicode-to-string).

XPath 2.0 has a built in function that converts between a string and a
sequence of integers representing its Unicode codepoints, and vice
versa.

Michael Kay