Hi Sun,

If you're getting an error about an illegal character, try checking the output with a Hex editor (or similar) to find out exactly which character is being output.

Here's a couple of ways an illegal character could be output:

• If you're outputting the XML declaration (which you are) - it must be the very first thing - so if you save the file and accidentally add a space or a newline, you'll probably get an error from a validating parser
• If you're calling a macro in Umbraco, check the first character the template outputs; it's very likely that that's where the problem is.
• If you've copied the initial XSLT code from somewhere else (the web, an email, this forum etc.) you could end up with mixed encodings - that could also be a problem

I'm not sure what you're trying to do with the media-type="string" attribute on the <xsl:output> element? If you're generating XML, just let the processor decide.

Hope that helps,

/Chriztian

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