> However, with this I will produce the encode UNICODE char in the output
> (HTML) doc; i.e.

if the system supports ascii encoding you can do

<xsl:output encoding="ASCII"/> (or sometimes US-ASCII is recognosed)
and thenall non ascii characters will be encoded as entities or numeric
refs on output.
If ascii isn't known it probably knows iso-8859-1 

David

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