With method="xml", Saxon only uses saxon:character-representation to decide
how to represent characters that aren't in the selected encoding. It
therefore has no effect when encoding="utf-8".

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lloyd [mailto:steve.lloyd@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 May 2004 11:24
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Steve Lloyd, XML Developer-Editorial Production Dept.
> International Baccalaureate Organisation
> Tel: +44 29 2054 7869
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