Hi Steve

> I am trying to generate an xhtml+mathml document in which the more 
> esoteric maths characters are represented in the output by their decimal 
> numeric entities rather than the character.

All you need to do is specify the output encoding:

<xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-1">

The serialized output will be in that encoding, and any characters which
fall outside of it will be represented with a numerical character reference.
You have no control over whether it is decimal or hex, but I'm pretty sure
Saxon uses the decimals.

Bear in mind that XSLT processors are only *required* to support utf-8 and
utf-16 in output, however most support others.

Hope that helps,

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lloyd [mailto:steve.lloyd@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 26 May 2004 12:24
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  XSLT-Numerical character entity output


I am trying to generate an xhtml+mathml document in which the more 
esoteric maths characters are represented in the output by their decimal 
numeric entities rather than the character.
I thought I'd got the solution with the 'saxon:character-representation' 
attribute on <xsl:output>.

I use:
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" 
saxon:character-representation="decimal"/>

...but am still not getting entities on output of characters such as  #8477.

Any thoughts on where I'm going wrong?

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