>>>>> "andrew" == andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    andrew> Ha! Almost..... (would've been a great workaround)

    andrew> I now get the error:

    andrew>   XTDE1180: The unparsed-text file contains a character
    andrew> illegal in XML (line=1 column=15 value=hex 1f)
    andrew> Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported

    andrew> Which makes me think Saxon (851b) is checking the
    andrew> string....

It is.
The interesting thing is this error code does not exist in the
September 2005 working draft.

-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire