Using Oracle's XSLT Engine with your example I 
get a three-byte output file with the expected
result. Might give it a spin to see if it
works for you on your larger example.

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml/parser_java2/

It's part of our XML Parser for Java V2 kit.

"oraxsl" is the command-line version, or

$ java oracle.xml.parser.v2.oraxsl foo.xml foo.xsl foo.out

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Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
Business Components for Java Development Team
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederic Schwebel" <schwebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:32 AM
Subject: characters with accents


| 
| Hi,
| 
| I want to change all numbers (0 to 9) in MathML expressions into
| characters with accents, because they are the right characters for the
| braille displays and braille embossers.
| I need both html and text outputs for this, and thanks to David Carlisle
| and Phil Lanch, it works in html with this :
| ----------------
| 
| <?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
| <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
|   <!ENTITY bra1  "&#226;">
|   <!ENTITY bra2  "&#234;">
|   <!ENTITY bra3  "&#238;">
| ]>
| <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
| xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
| <xsl:output method="html"/>
| 
| ... a few lines after ....
| 
| <xsl:template match="mn">
| <xsl:value-of select="translate(.,'123','&bra1;&bra2;&bra3;')" />
| </xsl:template>
| 
| ---------------
| 
| But for the text output (when i change the xsl:output-method)
| it gives me crazy characters (actually 2 characters for one numbrer), no
| matter if I look at the output with Windows Notepad, Ms-Dos Edit or a Unix
| viewer...
| 
| I tried both with xt and saxon (DOS versions), both with UTF-8 and ISO
| encoding, I always have the same result. I tried different ASCII codes and
| I saw that any number after 127 gives me two "crazy" characters as a
| translation. But the charset of my DOS box is bigger than 127, I know,
| because I can get accents when I type the character on the keyboard.
| 
| I hope you understand what I mean. I don't know if it's really a XSL
| problem but any help is really welcomed, I'm stuck...
| 
| Thanks !
| Frederic
| 
| 
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