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Subject: Binary characters in XML
From: "Michael Leung" <mmhleung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:38:17 -0500
binary character list
Hi,

I am trying to transform an XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="bin.xsl"?>
<doc>
<binary>
&#x01;&#x02;&#x03;&#x04;&#x05;&#x06;&#x07;&#x08;&#x00;
</binary>
</doc>

into a binary file with the contents being the value of
the binary element in the above using the following
XSLT stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output encoding="utf-8" />

<xsl:template match="binary">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I tried using MSXSL from Microsoft and I got an "Invalid unicode character" error.

I also tried using Saxon and I got an "illegal XML character &#x1;" error.
In IE, those characters are displayed as rectangles ().

I wonder why the XSLT processors are complaining about these 
characters and I wonder if it is possible to carry out such a
transformation.

Many thanks,
Michael.
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