In the below XSLT program I loop over each value in a sequence and separate

the sequence values by a tab (hex 9) character. When I open the output file in
a hex editor I see 3 characters separating the sequence values: space (hex
20), tab (hex 9), and space (hex 20). Why am I getting those space characters?
How do I avoid getting them?  /Roger

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                            version="2.0">

<xsl:output method="text" />

     <xsl:variable name="headers" select="('A', 'B')"/>
     <xsl:variable name="field-separator"

     <xsl:template match="/">
         <xsl:for-each select="$headers">
             <xsl:sequence select="." />
             <xsl:sequence select="$field-separator"/>
         </xsl:for-each>

As for the reason, see
https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#constructing-complex-content and item 3 saying

Any consecutive sequence of strings within the result sequence is
converted to a single text node, whose string value contains the content
of each of the strings in turn, with a single space (#x20) used as a
separator between successive strings.

---
Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren gepr|ft.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus