> From: SMITH Neil [mailto:neil.smith@xxxxxxxx] 

> It does look like an entity reference... Even though I didn't 
> find the ones I have on the w3.org website... For example 
> '„', '“' or '"'. These values are in the 
> database, but when queried directly from the database and 
> displayed on a web page, they are displayed as 'normal' 
> caracters, but not in the XML document, nore after the 
> parsing to an HTML page. I use XMLSPY to transform XML to 
> HTML. Is there something that has to be specified in the 
> XML/HTML or XSL document to resolve the entity references? 

& q u o t e ; and & a m p ; (spaces added) are built into xml (along
with three others) by its specification and are understood by all xml
parsers. Things like & # 8 2 2 2 ; (which are called "character
references") are also defined by the xml specification.  HTML also
understands them.  So there is nothing special to do.  HTML-specific
entities like & n b s p ; are specific to html and xhtml. 


> I've specified this in my XSL : <META 
> HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; 
> charset=UTF-8"/> This is in my XML : <?xml version="1.0" 
> encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> And this is generated in 
> my HTML page : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><META 
> HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
> 
> Does anybody know what could be wrong???


What is it that you think is wrong?

Cheers,

Tom P