XHTML is XML, which has no pre-defined "character entities" for
characters such as ü - therefore they will never be used in
serialized XML or XHTML output.

You can force the use of numeric character references by specifying the
output encoding as US-ASCII (or in Saxon, by saying
saxon:character-representation="decimal").

Why do you need these characters to be represented as entities?

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Hannes Schmiderer
> Sent: 09 March 2003 22:50
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  XHTML output and special character entities
> 
> 
> I have a XML source file which uses iso-8859-1 encoding such 
> that I can enter German umlauts easily.
> 
> I used
> 
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
> 
> in the XSLT Script to produce HTML output. The umlauts where 
> transformed to the appropriate entity (ü -> &uuml;) .
> 
> Now I wanted to create XHTML output instead of HTML.
> I changed the output method to xml and tried different encodings, for
> instance:
> 
> <xsl:output method="xml"
>   
> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transit
> ional.dtd"
>   doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" indent="yes"
>   encoding="iso-8859-1" />
> 
> But I do not know how I can get the xslt processor to 
> transform the umlauts into their corresponding entity. Do I 
> have to use xhtml-lat1.ent (and the other entities files) somehow?
> 
> I'm using SAXON 6.5.2.
> 
> Thanks for any hint!
> Hannes Schmiderer
> 
> 
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