Yes, the codepoint 0 is the only remaining obstacle that stops you handling
binary data as if it were a string.

Apparently it's difficult to support the ASCII NUL character because some
implementations are written in antiquated programming languages that don't
allow a NUL character in the middle of a string...

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 June 2005 10:27
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Ascii end-of-file character output in an XSL file
> 
> 
> presumably in a system supporting XML 1.1 it will supprt an ad hoc
> extension to xsd schema so that in fact you can use these 
> control codes
> in XML so long as you use a numeric reference, presumably they will be
> output as themselves in text output. Only null (ascii 0) can't be used
> at all.
> 
> David
> 
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