𡁀 coming out as ?

I've got a .xsl file with the following html markup in it:

<td>&#21040;</td><td>5/1/02</td>

where &#21040; is the decimal value of a chinese character.  The problem is
that when I run the xsl through the transformer (MICROSOFT.XMLDOM), it
outputs <td>?</td><td>5/1/02</td>.  Is this enough information to know what
I am doing wrong?

I tried to get around the problem by used CDATA as follows:

<td><![CDATA[&#21040;]]></td><td>5/1/02</td>

but that produces <td>&amp;#21040;</td><td>5/1/02</td>, so the browser
displays &21040; instead of the chinese character.  (BTW, I thought CDATA
was supposed to be not parsed at all.)

Thanks in advance

Randy 

ps.  I don't know the version of the transformer and am not sure how to
check it. 

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