> To answer the original question, it is an encoding issue that will be solved
> if he makes sure that his XML document properly declares its actual
> encoding. I think he's leaving off the encoding declaration and it is
> defaulting to UTF-8, when in fact the file is iso-8859-1 encoded. As the
> bytes for Éditez are read in, this is what happens:

Am I correct in assuming that were he to include that encoding declaration,
along with the accented É - the xslt processor would not have a problem, but
the _output_ would still contain the original character, _not_ its encoded
counterpart?

i.e. if he were going to html, it would look like this:
<b>Éditez</b> (which isn't correct)

not

<b>&#201;ditez</b>
or
<b>&Eacute;ditez</b>

The last two being synonymous assuming you're using an html dtd, and
correct.

?

_alex


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