You can't write 

	<VALUE>-.&'()_!?*#%":+<>=?!></\@,~{}$[]^;</VALUE> 

In xml unless you encode certain chars:

Replace ' by &apos;
Replace & by &amp;
Replace " by &quot;
Replace < by &lt;


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@xxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:28 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Special characters in xsl


Archana Rao wrote:

> When i try to display the line below i get the
> following error.
> 
> <td valign="top" class="text" align="left"
> bgcolor="#ffffff">
>         <xsl:value-of select="VALUE" />
> </td>
> 
> ERROR,
> A name was started with an invalid character. Error
> processing resource, 
> <VALUE>-.&'()_!?*#%":+<>=?!></\@,~{}$[]^;</VALUE> 
> 
> How should i deal with this.

What do you mean by "when I try to display"? It displays fine in my mail 
reader, but somehow I feel that you're trying to do something else :-)

Regards,

Julian

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