Try this:

<xsl:value-of select=" concat(&amp;#',  $sChar,  ';') />

Trotter Hardy



"Grimmie" <This is fake> wrote in message 
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> Hello all,
>
> The problem is this:
> I have a (variable) number and want to change it into an ASCII character.
> ie &#65; = 'A', &#66; = 'B' etc.
> The only thing is 65 comes from a variabele
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> So basically it looks something like this:
>    <xsl:template name="ConvertASCII">
>        <xsl:param name="iPosition"/>
>        <xsl:variable name="iColumn">
>        -- Do some calculations with position--
>        </xsl:variable>
>        <xsl:variable name="sChar">&#<xsl:value-of
> select="$iColumn"/>;</xsl:variable>
>        <xsl:value-of select="sChar"/>
>    </xsl:template>
> Off course this doen't work. because of the "&#" int the sChar variabele.
>
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> ----------
>
> This:
>    <xsl:text>&#<xsl:value-of select="sChar"/>;</xsl:text>
> Also doesn't work because you can't have a variabele inside xsl:text
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
>
> This:
>   <xsl:when test="$sChar= 65">A</xsl:when>
>    <xsl:when test="$sChar= 66">B</xsl:when>
>    <xsl:when test="$sChar= 67">C</xsl:when>
>      --- Etc ---
> works, but it looks like crap repeating it all for the alphabet
>
>
> So what I want is a "Num => ASCII" function, but the NUM is a variabele.
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