RE: Special letters in XML - list ?

> from here I found out that XSLT removes special letters put 
> directly into
> the XSLT file. Instead one has to insert thoese lettter in a 
> special form
> (like 
 for a new line, etc.).

It might give that impression, but you need to understand the processing
model in more detail.

Remember first that both the source document and the stylesheet are first
processed by an XML parser. The XML parser performs certain operations such
as normalization of line endings, normalization of attribute values, and
expansion of character and entity references.

Then the XSLT processor does some additional processing to remove whitespace
text nodes. In the source document, all whitespace text nodes selected by
xsl:strip-space are removed. In the stylesheet, all whitespace text nodes
other than those contained by xsl:text are removed.

Then your stylesheet executes to produce a result tree.

Then your result tree is serialized.

Each of these processes performs certain manipulations on your data, and to
understand how the output relates to the input it's not sufficient to just
give you a list of "special letters".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/