The characters are not just the ASCII bytes.

I think you will need to match on the characters in question and replace
them with the desired character, e.g.:

<xsl:template match="text()[contains(., 'C"b,b"')]">
<xsl:value-of select="replace(., 'C"b,b"', 'b')"/>
<xsl:template/>

And then use a more complete identity transform that handles the text nodes:

Cheers,

Eliot


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Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com



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Subject:   Character encoding/representation from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<documents>
<document>The reality of the effect of natural ventilation in a residential
attic cavity has been the topic of many debates and scholarly reports since
the 1930C"b,b"s.</document>
</documents>