Re: [xsl] Page Break in XSLT?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-11-19 11:05 -0500, Vic Gar wrote:
> I'm trying to output control l.  I'm told that our system will insert a 
> page break when it sees these two (characters?  keystrokes?  thingies?).

CTRL-L is a short-form for the C0 character "FF" which is the one character 
whose hexadecimal value is 0x0c (decimal 12).

"FF" stands for "Form Feed" which ejects the page in the printer to start 
at a new page.

It is a hardware control character, recognized by some software reading raw 
text files.

> How can I get my stylesheet to output control and the letter 'l'?

I don't understand how the output of your stylesheet is going directly to a 
device interpreting a FF, thus requiring this character.

This character *isn't* a valid XML character according to production [2] of 
XML 1.0, therefore there is no way to represent it as a character in an XML 
document and your stylesheet is an XML document.

I think you are out of luck for XSLT 1.0 as written.

However, XT has a custom output serialization method called "NXML" and I've 
documented the use of NXML in the free download preview of our XSLT/XPath 
book that you can obtain at no charge from the "Book Sales" link at the top 
of our home page noted below.  Using XT and the NXML output method instead 
of the standard text output method you can encode any character value you 
wish.  An example is below.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken

T:\ftemp>type ff.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?><!--ff.xsl-->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                xmlns:xt="http://www.jclark.com/xt";
                exclude-result-prefixes="xt"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="xt:nxml"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <nxml><data>
    This is an FF:<char number="12"/>:End of test
  </data></nxml>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>xt ff.xsl ff.xsl

    This is an FF:?:End of test

T:\ftemp>


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