> <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="us-ascii"/>

Saxon usually uses entity names for the html output method, are you sure
it is not in your case?


> characters are converting to named entity for ex: from ' to &apos; -
> This is

But that is different: the HTML 4 DTD does not define the apos entity
name (unlike XML) so if you write a ' as &apos; in html that is a syntax
error, so you would not expeect the XSLT system to do that. It only uses
names for characters which have a defined name in HTML.

David


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