> > The file
> > encoding (ascii, utf8, whatever, .. is of course unrelated to the
> > question of whether you use entity references or chartacter references.
> > 
> > David
> 
> You mean named or numeric character references. 

no I meant (but couldn't spell) entity references or character
references. The xml spec doesn't define anything called a named
character reference.


> The encoding is only related in the way it 
> influences the outputting of character references..

Yes I nearly mentioned that but that's a property of the encoding
attribute of xsl:output rather than a property of the encoding of the
file. ie I was commenting on

>  I would prefer UTF-8 or 'us-ascii' coded files. 

as that is misleading, the files are probably encoded in utf8 or ascii
or whatever else you specify irrespective of whether character maps are
used.

David

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