"& # 8 ;
This is not an XSLT question, it's an XML one.
unicode character 8 is illegal in XML documents so that syntax means
your file is not well formed XML and will be rejected by any XMNL
parser.
only characters 9 10 and 13 are allowed in the low block before
space (32)
Since there can't be a character 8 in the input, you don't need an XSLT
way of searching for such a character.
David
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