RE: XSL special chars output prob.

hello julian,
thanks for you answer.
when using extension functions, wouldn't it be the same problem?

This is by design.

XML doesn't allow any control characters except TAB, NL and LF, and
therefore, you can't produce them with plain XSLT.

>
> the goal is to transform a given xml document (not shown here) to a file,
> that has a strange header with special characters. if i view an example
> output file with a hex editor, i see 7F 0D 0A 17 00 04 01 etc.
>
> well, why not use &#x<here the two digits> in my xsl stylesheet i
> thought.
> this works well for the most characters, i.e. line feed (0A). the problem
> arises when trying to output &#x00, &#x01 etc.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
>
> <xsl:output method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
>       <xsl:template match="/">
>               1 &#x40;
>               2 &#x26;
>               3 &#x0A;
>               4 &#x0D;
> <!--  5 &#x00;
>               6 &#x01;
>               7 &#x04;
>               7 &#x17;
> -->
>       </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>