Re: Building a tab-delimited file in XSL

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

> Is there an & code that produces a tab 

Any ISO/IEC 10646-1 (from a user's perspective, equivalent to Unicode)
character listed in the subset defined by the "char" EBNF production in
XML 1.0 Recommendation can be referenced by a numeric character reference
as per the XML spec.

HORIZONTAL TAB is character number 9.
In your document, 	 or 	 will do.

Note that the char production says certain characters like the control
characters 0 through 8 are not allowed in XML at all, not even by
character reference. This sometimes causes problems for XSLT users who
want to emit bytes with those values in non-XML output. Post-processing
is usually required.

   - Mike
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