one very hack way of apparantly doing it
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XML document

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="entity.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<entity>
<![CDATA[
&#32321;&#39636;&#20013;&#25991;
]]>
</entity>
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XSL document

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Is there a way I can preserve character references and their format (decimal
or hexadecimal) in a XML document when performing a XSLT transformation?
For example, if I have the following text in the source XML document:

繁體中文

I would like to have exactly the same thing in the output XML document:

繁體中文

I tried to perform transformations using MSXML3 (via XMLSpy) and Unicorn
XSLT Processor but both of them resolved the character references.

Also, the value of the encoding attribute in <xsl:output> of my XSLT
stylesheet was set to "UTF-8" element.  When I changed it to "ISO-8859-1",
Unicorn changed the character references into decimal form:

繁體中文

Therefore, I want to know if there is any way I can force the XSLT processor
to preserve these character references and their format.  Thanks in advance!

Michael Lee
mlee@xxxxxxxxxx

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