you need ; after 125
<output:apply-templates select="root/{{$idName;}}" />
bernard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 11 September, 2001 15:59
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: help writing special characters
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> does anyone know why doing the following
>
> would cause this exception:
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Illegal decimal
> character reference.
>
> What I was expecting was the following line to be output:
> <outout:apply-templates select="root/{$idName}"/>
>
> I also tried adding a semicolon after } and that didn't cause an
> exception but gave:
> <outout:apply-templates select="root/{$idName;}"/>
>
> I don't want to have the extra semicolon after idName. (is this a bug?)
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
>
> Hanaa Barakat
>
>