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Hi all,

I have a problem with printing a tab. In my XML document i have
paragraph elements, that may have a <TAB /> element like this:

<paragraph stylesheet="Body_List">-<TAB />Avoid repetitive and time
consuming actions</paragraph>

To output the text i use the following:

<xsl:value-of select="text()" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="TAB" />

then i have a template that looks like this:

<xsl:template match="TAB">
<xsl:text>&#x0009;</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(..,substring(..,1,1))" /> <!--
make sure the '-' is not printed again -->
</xsl:template>

I searched these messages to look how i should output a tab, and i
found <xsl:text>&#x0009;</xsl:text> somewhere, but if i run this
through Xalan-j and FOP, the <xsl:text>&#x0009;</xsl:text> gets
replaced by a normal space.
Am i making a mistake here? or is it a bug, or is this normal
behaviour according to the standard?

Thanks for any help,
Jurrie