> Is there an & code that produces a tab

You can produce a tab just like any other character,
<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
If you want something a bit more visible you can use the fact that tab
is ascii (and hence unicode) character 9.
<xsl:text>&#9;</xsl:text>

David


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