Re: XSLT for text files ?(Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL from DocBook refentry-> man)

[Dave Pawson <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>]

At 07:41 PM 7/10/01, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk> was heard to say:
>| And if it falls down by needing some low count ASCII control code,
>| which is too much for XML, the typical solution is to 
>| output something careful such as [$nul], then use a text substitution
>| tool to convert that to null or whatever is needed.
>
>When does that happen? I haven't played much with text output, nor
>read that part of the spec recently, but I would have expected UTF-8
>text output to be able to handle any XML character.

Yes, but some text based formats use non XML characters.
The ones I've heard requested were less than 9 in an ASCII encoding?

Regards DaveP