These characters are not legal in XML 1.0, so they can't be present in the
input or output of an XSLT transformation.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Curry [mailto:andrew.curry@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 December 2004 11:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  RE: displaying characters
> 
> This is probably a simple question but i have looked around.
> 
> Im trying to use the below characters in my output of my transform
> 	
> Dec	Octal	Name	Value
> 	1	001	SOH	^A
> 	2	002	STX	^B
> 	3	003	ETX	^C
> 	4	004	EOT	^D
> 	5	005	ENQ	^E
> 	21	025	NAK	^U
> 	28	034	FS	^\
> 	30	036	RS	^^
> 	127	177	DEL	^?
> 
> Using the normal way of 
> 
> <xsl:text>&#21;</xsl:text>
> 
> Brings up the below error...
> 
> example.xsl:87: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid 
> xmlChar value 21
> <xsl:text>&#21;</xsl:text>
> 
> Now for standard characters this works but not for these.
> 
> Any helo would be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers