> is any simple metod to convert the national
> characters ÅÄÜÖ and such to a format that the
> XML parser understands?

most likely you don't need to convert anything, just tell th eparser you
are using latin1
stick this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

at the top

David


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