Thanks for all the answers and really sorry about the fact that I wrote the question on this mailing list and not a xml specifimg mailing list. Thanks again to everyone. 

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From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:06:44 PM
Subject: RE:  0x19 is not a legal XML character


> Of course, it can be valid content, in which case the XML 
> documents should be opened as XML 1.1 documents.

I'm reluctant to join a thread that has been deemed by both the OP and
Tommie to be off-topic, but in the interests of accuracy: x19 is a legal
character in XML 1.1 only if written in the form of a numeric character
reference. (Which means that encoding is definitely NOT an issue).

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


       
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