>I've got XML documents, marked up to a DTD, and calling character entity
>sets. When I run through the XSLT processor (xalan) to output another XML
>file I find the entities have been converted to something different, and
>fairly inconsistently. 
>
>What I would like to achieve is having “ ü in my input xml, and
>these entities still being untouched in my output. Can anyone advise how I
>achieve this please?
>
>What I'm getting are (“, ü), or (“ and ü), or (“
>and ü), depending on character encoding settings and entity sets used. Am I
>missing something?
>

“ ü are not predefined character entities. 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-predefined-ent

They apear as literal text strings

'&' 'l' 'd' 'q' 'u' 'o' ';'

and so when searialized to XML the '&' character is replaced by '&' giving

“

if you are making an HTML document and want these character entities you should specify the correct character entity and put.

<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1">



Edward Middleton


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