> Anyway, it is 
> the decimal representation that I want as the output. I am 
> working with XML 
> that is being generated using C++ MFC and the Xerces C++ parser.
> 
> What would you suggest I do to convert these characters to 
> their decimal 
> reference? 

Use <xsl:output encoding="us-ascii"/>

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