> They are the same word, one encoded in utf8 and the other 
> encoded in latin1 (iso-8859-1)
> 
> You either want to force latin1 output by having xsl:output 
> encoding="iso-8859-1" or you want to declare the page hosting 
> your form to be in utf8 .
> 

Url-o-matic service

Read this first
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N7150.html

This is good background information
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/characters.html

If you need to ensure your xml files are in a certain format use HTML
tidy to preprocess them.
http://tidy.sourceforge.net

Gl, Jim Fuller

Some questions are like buses, the always seem to come in 3 !




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