At 2003-09-03 15:23 -0400, FranklinChen(_at_)cmu(_dot_)edu wrote:
 is not a valid character for XML 1.0
This is correct.
I need to output this character!
Is there any pure XSLT workaround for my problem,
Not that I can think of ... you can't specify the character in XML in order
for the character to be in the stylesheet to be output to your result.
or do I have output
something like "JUNK" and have a (non-XSLT) script postprocess the
text to replace that with the required control character?
XT has the built-in NXML extension output method that is already written
for you to do just this: outputting arbitrary character codes in text
files. There is an example of the use of NXML on pages 120-123 of the free
excerpt download of our XSLT book that we sell off our web site.
If you need to use <xsl:key> that XT doesn't support, then write a two-pass
where the first pass uses another processor and outputs XML that your XT
pass then reads and puts out the control characters.
I hope this helps.
.................. Ken
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