RE: [xsl] Converting number to ASCII-character

["Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a variable, which contains a number and I want to output the
> appropriate
> ASCII- charater. 
> For example
> 
> <xsl:variable name = "number" select = "65"/>
> 
> should output an A.
> Is there a function or something similar to solve this issue ?

The closest equivalent is:
 <xsl:value-of select="concat('&amp;', $number, ';')"
   disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
which works because Unicode character values are a superset of ASCII.

If you want to avoid d-o-e, you can
(a) escape into an extension function
(b) use

<xsl:variable name="ascii"> !&quot;#$%^....abcde...ABCDE....</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($ascii, $number - 31, 1)"/>

Mike Kay

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